Speed and accuracy of olfactory discrimination in the rat

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1224-1229

  Uchida, Naoshige ^a   Mainen, Zachary F ^a  

^a Watson School of Biological Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SNIFFING; THETA RHYTHM;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS; INHALATION; MALE; MOVEMENT; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PSYCHOMETRICS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; RESPIRATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL; SPACE PERCEPTION; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0242321787     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1142     Document Type: Article

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