Performance of mice in discrimination of liquor odors: Behavioral evidence for olfactory attention

Chemical Senses

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 283-290

  Takiguchi, Noboru ^a   Okuhara, Keisuke ^a   Kuroda, Akio ^a   Kato, Junichi ^a   Ohtake, Hisao ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attention; Liquor; Mice; Odor discrimination; Y maze assay

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED WINE;

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CYCLOHEXENES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HEXANOIC ACIDS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MINERAL OIL; MONOTERPENES; ODORS; PENTANOLS; SMELL; TERPENES; VALERATES;

MUS; PRUNUS DOMESTICA;

EID: 41049110246     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjm086     Document Type: Article

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