Comparison of the role of somatosensory stimuli in maze learning in a blind subterranean rodent and a sighted surface-dwelling rodent

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 389-395

  Kimchi, Tali ^a   Terkel, Joseph ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Laboratory rat; Maze learning; Mole rat; Orientation; Sensory compensation; Somatosensory stimuli; Subterranean mammal; Visual deficiency

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MAZE LEARNING; MECHANORECEPTORS; ORIENTATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SPALAX; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 3242738284     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2003.12.015     Document Type: Article

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