Spatial task for rats testing position recognition of an object displayed on a computer screen

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 480-489

  Klement, Daniel ^a   Levcik, David ^a   Duskova, Lenka ^a   Nekovarova, Tereza ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Distance estimation; Operant conditioning; Reinforcement learning; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 74449085454     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.10.041     Document Type: Article

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