Stimulus congruence affects perceptual processes in a novel Go/Nogo conflict paradigm in rats

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 48, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 69-88

  Villa, Alessandro E P ^a   Eriksson, Jan ^a   Eriksson, Christian ^a   Haeberli, Christian ^a   Hyland, Brian ^a,b   Najem, Abdellatif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Conflict paradigm; Early communication; Information processing; Long Evans rats; Reaction time; Stimulus compatibility

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS;

EID: 0032719269     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(99)00070-4     Document Type: Article

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