T-maze

[ tee-meyz ]

noun

, Psychology.

1. a pathway shaped like the letter T through which an animal runs during learning experiments.

Example Sentences

Yale University’s Robert Fernandez prepared the lab bench for the camera as a chef might arrange his mise en place, deftly laying out a mini vortex, a fly aspirator, a T-maze, and a thermometer.

From The New Yorker

Yale University’s Robert Fernandez prepared the lab bench for the camera as a chef might arrange his mise en place, deftly laying out a mini vortex, a fly aspirator, a T-maze, and a thermometer.

From The New Yorker

For their experiments, Waddell and his team used a variation on the simple T-maze, which is a standard piece of apparatus in mind-of-the-fly laboratories.

From The New Yorker

But as I listened to Professor Clinger’s stereotyped paper on “The effects of left- handed goal boxes in a T-maze versus right-handed goal boxes in a T-maze,” I found myself toying with the release- lock mechanism of Algernons cage.

From Literature

Ten minutes of equilibrium time was allowed before the tubes were connected to the T-maze apparatus immediately before the assay.

From Nature