Characterizing psychophysical measures of discrimination thresholds and the effects of concentration on discrimination learning in the moth Manduca sexta

Chemical Senses

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 95-106

  Daly, Kevin C ^a   Carrell, Lynnsey A ^a   Mwilaria, Esther ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential conditioning; Discrimination threshold; Manduca sexta; Olfaction; Olfactory coding; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

2 HEXANONE; 2 OCTANOL; LINALOOL; NEROLIDOL; SALICYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MANDUCA SEXTA; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MANDUCA; ODORS; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SEX FACTORS; SMELL;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA SEXTA;

EID: 38949108924     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjm068     Document Type: Article

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