A fully automated high-throughput training system for rodents

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Poddar, Rajesh ^a   Kawai, Risa ^a   Ölveczky, Bence P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOME-CAGE ACTIVITY TEST; LEARNING STYLE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; DEVICES; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MOTOR SKILLS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS;

EID: 84891944619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083171     Document Type: Article

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