Rats Spontaneously Discriminate Purely Visual, Two-Dimensional Stimuli in Tests of Recognition Memory and Perceptual Oddity

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1032-1042

  Forwood, Suzanna E ^a   Bartko, Susan J ^a   Saksida, Lisa M ^a,b   Bussey, Timothy J ^a,b  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

declarative memory; object; perception; vision; visual screening test

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COLOR; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 35748985300     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.5.1032     Document Type: Article

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