Relevance of a neutral cue in a two-choice detection task in the rat

Biological Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 259-267

  Hamame, Carlos M ^a   Delano, Paul H ^a   Robles, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional task; Expectancy; Neutral cue; Rat

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXPECTANCY; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 33746625075     PISSN: 07169760     EISSN: 07176287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0716-97602006000200008     Document Type: Article

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