Vibrissal paralysis unveils a preference for textural rather than positional novelty in the one-trial object recognition task in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 229-235

  Moreno, Claudia ^a   Vivas, Oscar ^a   Lamprea, Nina P ^a   Lamprea, Marisol R ^a   Múnera, Alejandro ^a   Troncoso, Julieta ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Facial nerve injury; Facial paralysis; Object place preference; Object recognition memory; Object texture preference; Rats; Vibrissae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRISSA; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DENERVATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FORM PERCEPTION; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOGNOSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 77952429182     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.03.044     Document Type: Article

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