Computer-assisted scoring of the elevated plus maze

BioTechniques

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 700-704

  Patel, Paresh D ^a,c   Seasholtz, Audrey F ^a   Patel, Paritosh D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MAZE TEST; MEASUREMENT ERROR; RECORDER; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; MAZE LEARNING;

EID: 34047223508     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/000112318     Document Type: Review

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