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Active avoidance (shuttle box) in cognitive impairment and dementia research

From 2021 to 2025, 46 animal research papers on cognitive impairment and dementia mentioned active avoidance (shuttle box) in their title or abstract.

That is 15% fewer than the 54 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers on cognitive impairment and dementia that mention any of the 90 tests we count rose 70%.

46 papers on cognitive impairment and dementia from 2021 to 2025 mentioned active avoidance (shuttle box)
1% of the papers on cognitive impairment and dementia that mention any test mention active avoidance (shuttle box)
22% of the papers that mention active avoidance (shuttle box) are on cognitive impairment and dementia
15% fewer papers than in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers on cognitive impairment and dementia that mention active avoidance (shuttle box), by year, 2001 to 2026

The 2026 bar counts papers added to PubMed by November 8, 2026.

  • Papers in a full year
  • 2026 so far
Show the counts for each year
Papers by year
YearPapers
20018
20026
20031
20043
20053
20067
20070
20085
20092
20104
20118
20128
20139
201416
201513
20168
20175
20188
20198
20208
202112
202210
20239
20248
20257
2026 (part year)15

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 46 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Rat
31 papers 67%
Mouse
15 papers 33%
Other animals
1 paper 2%

“Other animals” counts papers that use none of the species this chart names.

Tests mentioned alongside active avoidance (shuttle box)

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 46 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 10 (22%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

19 papers 41%
7 papers 15%
6 papers 13%
5 papers 11%
3 papers 7%
2 papers 4%
1 paper 2%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research, mentions active avoidance (shuttle box) in its title or abstract, and studies cognitive impairment and dementia.

We tell whether a paper studies cognitive impairment and dementia from its MeSH terms, the subject headings the National Library of Medicine adds when it indexes a paper. For a paper without MeSH terms, PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, has to find the disease in the title or abstract. A paper can count under more than one disease model. A paper that mentions the test only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low.

The page on cognitive impairment and dementia research names the subject headings we count as cognitive impairment and dementia. Download the test list for the search terms we used for active avoidance (shuttle box), or the paper list for the PubMed ID of every paper behind these counts. Our main page, Behavioral tests in published research, has the full method and each source's terms of use.

More tests and disease models

Every pairing of a disease model and a test with 30 or more papers from 2021 to 2025 has a page like this one.

The page on active avoidance (shuttle box) counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on cognitive impairment and dementia research ranks the tests by their papers on cognitive impairment and dementia.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 10). Active avoidance (shuttle box) in cognitive impairment and dementia research [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/cognitive-impairment/active-avoidance

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_cognitive_impairment_active_avoidance_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Active avoidance (shuttle box) in cognitive impairment and dementia research},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/data/behavioral-tests/models/cognitive-impairment/active-avoidance},
  note = {Data set, released November 10, 2026},
}

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