Need to train your rat? There is an App for that: A touchscreen behavioral evaluation system

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 206-214

  Wolf, Joshua E ^a   Urbano, Catherine M ^a   Ruprecht, Chad M ^a   Leising, Kenneth J ^a  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

IPad; Operant chamber; Touchscreen; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MP3 PLAYER; PHYSIOLOGY; POWER SUPPLY; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; VISION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DATA COLLECTION; DATA DISPLAY; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MP3-PLAYER; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84894656977     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-013-0366-6     Document Type: Article

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