Discrimination of multidimensional visual stimuli by mice: Intra- and extradimensional shifts

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 839-842

  Brigman, Jonathan L ^a   Bussey, Timothy J ^b,c   Saksida, Lisa M ^b,c   Rothblat, Lawrence A ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal learning; Executive function; Mouse; Set shifting; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 21644474660     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.3.839     Document Type: Article

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