Do rats (Rattus norvegicus) perceive biological motion?

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 205, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 571-576

  MacKinnon, Laura M ^a   Troje, Nikolaus F ^a,b   Dringenberg, Hans C ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biological motion; Rat; Vision; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; FOOT; MALE; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WALKING; ANIMAL; CAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LONG EVANS RAT; MAZE TEST; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CATS; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79957673072     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2378-0     Document Type: Article

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