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Objective To study the effects of different color light stimulus, duration of stimulus and day/night training on the incentive conditioned reflex of rats,and to provide a data basis for the methodology of incentive conditional reflection experiments. Methods Three experiments were included in this study. During the experiment 1, a total of 30 male 8-week-old Wistar rats were divided into three groups:red light stimulation group,yellow light stimulation group and blue light stimulation group. During the experiment 2, a total of 32 male 8-week-old Wistar rats were divided into three groups:the group I(with a light stimulation duration of 10 s), the group II(with a light stimulation duration of 30 s), and the group III(with a light stimulation duration of 60 s). During the experiment 3,a total of 16 male 8-week-old Wistar rats were randomly divided into two groups,of which the first group was trained at 9:00 a.m. every day, and the second group was trained at 21:00 every day. All the laboratory animals were given reward conditioned reflex training, and indicators such as the number of correct nose pokes,the number of incorrect nose pokes,the ratio of correct nose pokes and so on were counted and calculated. Results During the experiment 1,there was no significant difference in the numbers of correct nose pokes and incorrect nose pokes,movement distances and average speeds of the rats among the three groups. During the experiment 2,compared with the group with a light duration of 10 s,the rats in the groups with a light duration of 30 s or 60 s had a higher number of correct nose pokes(P< 0.05). Moreover,on the 13th and 14th days,the ratio of correct nose pokes of the group with a light duration of 30 s was significantly higher than that of the group with a light duration of 10 s(P< 0.001). During the experiment 3,there were no significant differences in the number of correct nose pokes and the nose poke accuracy of the rats between the two groups. Conclusions In the reward conditioned reflex test, red,yellow and blue light stimuli have similar reward prediction effect. When stimulated with the same light, the time of stimulation has an impact on the learning ability of the rats,and an appropriate extension of stimulation is beneficial to the formation of conditioned reflex in them. The day/night training has no effect on the learning and memory ability of the rats.
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In order to solve the problems that the injury, hemorrhage, infection and edema of the brain tissue caused by brain electrodes implantation for aquatic animal robots, a light stimulation device and an optical control experiment method for carp robots are proposed in this paper. According to the shape of the carp skull, the device is a structure of Chinese character " cut by a printed circuit board which can provide three groups of A, B and C bridge platforms for the light stimulation source. The two ends of a bridge in every group are welded with a jumper board, and the light emitting diodes (LED) are inserted into the jumper boards as the light stimulation source, and all negative poles of the jumper boards are connected to the console by the wire. A LED light can be replaced by another LED light according to the need of the wavelength of the LED light, and various combinations of the light stimulation modes can be also selected. This device was mounted on the carp robot's head, the carp robot was placed in a water maze, and the optical control experiment method was observed to control the forward movement and steering movement of the carp robots ( = 10) under the dark light condition. The results showed that the success rates of the three groups of red light control experiments were 53%-87%, and the success rates of the three groups of blue light control experiments were 50%-80%. This study shows that the apparatus and the method are feasible.