Novel two-alternative forced choice paradigm for bilateral vibrotactile whisker frequency discrimination in head-fixed mice and rats

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 273-284

  Mayrhofer, Johannes M ^a   Skreb, Vida ^a   Von der Behrens, Wolfger ^a   Musall, Simon ^a   Weber, Bruno ^a   Haiss, Florent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Head fixation; Interhemispheric communication; Mouse; Operant conditioning; Psychophysics; Rat; Somatosensory cortex; Whisker

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HEAD MOVEMENT; IMPULSIVENESS; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PULSATILE FLOW; RAT; REACTION TIME; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MICE; RATS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84871917514     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00488.2012     Document Type: Article

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