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Novel object recognition with exercise

From 2021 to 2025, 81 animal research papers mentioned exercise and novel object recognition in their title or abstract.

That is 2.9 times the 28 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, the papers that mention exercise and any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 1.9 times as many.

81 animal research papers from 2021 to 2025 mentioned exercise and novel object recognition
9% of the 916 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention exercise and a test mention novel object recognition
3% of the 3,019 papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention novel object recognition also mention exercise
2.9 times as many papers as in 2011 to 2015

Papers by year

Animal research papers that mention exercise and novel object recognition, 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
20010
20020
20030
20040
20050
20060
20070
20082
20092
20101
20111
20124
20136
20149
20158
20165
201710
201815
201917
202017
202117
202213
202315
202422
202514
2026 (part year)16

Papers that mention exercise and novel object recognition fell from 17 in 2021 to 13 in 2022, then rose to 14 in 2025. Part of this dip may come from PubMed's indexing rather than from fewer studies. We take a paper's species from PubMed's indexing when the indexing names one. Otherwise PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, has to find a species in the title or abstract, or the paper is not counted. Papers that PubMed indexed under the subject heading Animals also fell and rose, from 200,221 in 2021 to 156,447 in 2023 and 235,479 in 2025.

Which species the papers used

Each bar is a share of the 81 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.

Species

Mouse
41 papers 51%
Rat
40 papers 49%
Other animals
1 paper 1%

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

Tests mentioned alongside novel object recognition

Each bar is one test, with how many of the 81 papers also mention it, and what share that is. Of these papers, 28 (35%) mention no other test.

The 12 tests these papers mention most

21 papers 26%
16 papers 20%
12 papers 15%
8 papers 10%
4 papers 5%
4 papers 5%
3 papers 4%
2 papers 2%

Which papers count

A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions exercise and novel object recognition.

A paper that mentions either only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low. The search terms are in the list of models and techniques and the test list. The full method, with each source and its terms of use, is on our main page, Behavioral tests in published research.

More pairings

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

The page on novel object recognition counts all the papers that mention it, whatever they study. The page on exercise ranks the tests mentioned with it.

How to cite

APA

ConductScience. (2026, November 13). Novel object recognition with exercise [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/exercise/novel-object-recognition

BibTeX

@misc{conductscience_exercise_novel_object_recognition_2026,
  author = {{ConductScience}},
  title = {Novel object recognition with exercise},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/animal-models/exercise/novel-object-recognition},
  note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
}

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