Visuospatial attentional functioning In mice: Interactions between cholinergic manipulations and genotype

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2813-2823

  Humby, Trevor ^a   Laird, Fiona M ^a   Davies, William ^a   Wilkinson, Lawrence S ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetytcholine; Five choice task; Genes; Operant behaviours

Indexed keywords

SCOPOLAMINE;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DOSE RESPONSE; GENOTYPE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; N-METHYLSCOPOLAMINE; REACTION TIME; SCOPOLAMINE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032867020     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00701.x     Document Type: Article

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