Motion perception in rats (Rattus norvegicus sp.): Deficits in albino Wistar rats compared to pigmented Long-Evans rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-33

  Hupfeld, D ^a   Hoffmann, K P ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Albinism; Motion coherence; Motion detection; Rodents; Visual

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPECIES COMPARISON; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33748065346     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.01.022     Document Type: Article

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