Object recognition testing: Statistical considerations

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 232, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 317-322

  Akkerman, Sven ^a   Prickaerts, Jos ^a   Steinbusch, Harry W M ^a   Blokland, Arjan ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognition; Discrimination measures; Discrimination performance; Memory; Object recognition task; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; RATS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84861697146     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.03.024     Document Type: Article

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