The Floor Projection Maze: A novel behavioral apparatus for presenting visual stimuli to rats

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 82-88

  Furtak, Sharon C ^a   Cho, Christine E ^b   Kerr, Kristin M ^b   Barredo, Jennifer L ^b   Alleyne, Janelle E ^a,c   Patterson, Yolanda R ^a,c   Burwell, Rebecca D ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TOUGALOO COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated; Psychophysics; Rat; Two dimensional stimulus; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FLOOR PROJECTION MAZE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67349285822     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.04.023     Document Type: Article

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