The pharmacological sensitivity of a touchscreen-based visual discrimination task in the rat using simple and perceptually challenging stimuli

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 221, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 437-449

  Talpos, J C ^b   Fletcher, A C ^a   Circelli, C ^a   Tricklebank, M D ^a   Dix, S L ^a  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b JANSSEN RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Belgium)

Author keywords

D Amphetamine; Memantine; MK 801; PCP; Perception; Rat; Schizophrenia; Scopolamine; Touchscreen; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

DEXAMPHETAMINE; DIZOCILPINE; MEMANTINE; PHENCYCLIDINE; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HABITUATION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; COMPUTERS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DEXTROAMPHETAMINE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; MALE; MEMANTINE; PHENCYCLIDINE; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RATS; SCOPOLAMINE HYDROBROMIDE;

EID: 84862690772     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-011-2590-z     Document Type: Article

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