Behavioral assessment of visual acuity in mice and rats

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 2201-2209

  Prusky, Glen T ^a   West, Paul W R ^a   Douglas, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mouse; Rat; Rodent; Visual acuity; Water maze

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRATING; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNIQUE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0034237482     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(00)00081-X     Document Type: Article

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