Odor discrimination assessment with an automated olfactometric method in a prosimian primate, Microcebus murinus

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 82, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 325-329

  Joly, Marine ^a   Michel, Bernard ^b   Deputte, Bertrand ^c   Verdier, Jean Michel ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINTE MARGUERITE   (France)

^c ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

Author keywords

Cognitive capacities; Go no go task; Microcebus murinus; Odor discrimination; Olfactometry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRUIT; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NONHUMAN; OLFACTOMETRY; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 3242781671     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2004.03.019     Document Type: Article

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