Rat psychomotor vigilance task with fast response times using a conditioned lick behavior

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 229-237

  Walker, Jennifer L ^a   Walker, Brendan M ^a   Fuentes, Fernanda Monjaraz ^a   Rector, David M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned learning; Electrophysiology; Lick; PVT; Reaction time; Restraint; Sleep deprivation; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; FEMALE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LICKING; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WAKEFULNESS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SLEEP; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

EID: 78149407531     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.07.041     Document Type: Article

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