An inexpensive and automated method for presenting olfactory or tactile stimuli to rats in a two-choice discrimination task

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 113-124

  Iversen, Iver H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated stimulus presentation; Bidirectional motor; Olfactory discrimination; Rats; Tactile discrimination; Two choice task

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; LONG EVANS RAT; METHODOLOGY; ODOR; PSYCHOLOGY; RAT; STIMULATION; TOUCH;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SMELL; TOUCH;

EID: 50949115049     PISSN: 00225002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1901/jeab.2008.90-113     Document Type: Article

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