A novel task for the investigation of action acquisition

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Stafford, Tom ^a   Thirkettle, Martin ^a   Walton, Tom ^a   Vautrelle, Nicolas ^a   Hetherington, Len ^a   Port, Michael ^a   Gurney, Kevin ^a   Redgrave, Pete ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; ANIMAL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LEARNING; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84861883923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037749     Document Type: Article

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