The touchscreen operant platform for testing learning and memory in rats and mice

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1961-1984

  Horner, Alexa E ^a,b,c   Heath, Christopher J ^b,c   Hvoslef Eide, Martha ^b,c   Kent, Brianne A ^b,c   Kim, Chi Hun ^b,c   Nilsson, Simon R O ^b,c   Alsiö, Johan ^b,c   Oomen, Charlotte A ^b,c   Holmes, Andrew ^d   Saksida, Lisa M ^b,c   Bussey, Timothy J ^b,c  

^a Synome Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOSHAPING; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; LEARNING; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBJECT LOCATION PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCHSCREEN OPERANT PLATFORM; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE; LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; RATS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84885010455     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.122     Document Type: Article

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