Behavioral estimates of absolute visual threshold in mice

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 2427-2432

  Herreros De Tejada, Pilar ^a   Muñoz Tedó, Carmen ^a   Costi, Carmen ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Absolute threshold; Albinism; Behavioral; Mouse; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ALBINISM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LIGHT; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ALBINISM, OCULAR; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DARK ADAPTATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031238553     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00048-5     Document Type: Article

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