Enemy avoidance task: A novel behavioral paradigm for assessing spatial avoidance of a moving subject

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-33

  Telensky, Petr ^a,b   Svoboda, Jan ^a   Pastalkova, Eva ^a,c   Blahna, Karel ^a,b   Bures, Jan ^a   Stuchlik, Ales ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avoidance behavior; Exploration; Memory; Moving object; Navigation; Rat; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOTSHOCK; HEART FUNCTION TEST; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 67349255235     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.02.010     Document Type: Article

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