Audio-Visual Detection Benefits in the Rat

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Gleiss, Stephanie ^a   Kayser, Christoph ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; HEARING; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISION, OCULAR;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84866491888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045677     Document Type: Article

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