Insignificant influence of test order on cognitive behavior in Wistar rats

Abstract

Objectives: The aim was to evaluate the effects of test order in behavioral performance
of Wistar rats in cognitive performance tasks. Materials and Methods: The rats were
tested with both object recognition and object location tasks in different test orders
with an inter‑test interval of 1‑day. Results: An open field box sized 60 × 60 × 40 cm
was associated with better experimental outcome compared with box sized
100 × 100 × 50 cm. Test order has insignificant effects on the exploration activity of rats
with the 1‑day inter‑test interval. Conclusion: Test order of the cognitive performance
tasks with inter‑test interval of 1‑day did not influence the performance of Wistar rats.