Virtual morris water maze: A practical guide to running the water maze with people, in virtual reality
A practical guide to running the water maze with people, in virtual reality. Written for graduate students and scientists who want a clear, practical guide to virtual morris water maze.
On this site
- How the virtual Morris water maze works: How a virtual Morris water maze recreates the pool, cues and hidden goal for human participants, step by step.
- From rodent pool to human study: Why the virtual Morris water maze is useful for translational research, and what changes between rats and people.
- Measures for the virtual water maze: The analysis measures that work best for the virtual Morris water maze, and what each tells you.
- Designing a virtual water maze study: A planning checklist for a virtual Morris water maze experiment: participants, comfort, cues, trials, analysis and reporting.
Recent research using these methods
- 20 Oct 2026, Bioengineer.org: Different exercise types in rats (for example rotarod then treadmill) produced different BDNF and memory responses.
- 16 Oct 2026, EurekAlert!: Huperzine A protected neurons and adjusted brain circuits in a mouse model of vascular dementia, with water maze learning improved.
- 10 Oct 2026, Bioengineer.org: Male and female SAMP8 mice (an accelerated-ageing strain) aged differently in brain and behaviour, underlining the need to test both sexes.
Summaries rewritten from Google Alerts news reports; outlets credited.