Automated visual cognitive tasks for recording neural activity using a floor projection maze

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 84, 2014, Pages

  Jacobson, Tara K ^a   Ho, Jonathan W ^a   Kent, Brendon W ^a   Yang, Fang Chi ^a   Burwell, Rebecca D ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic electrophysiological recordings; Floor projection maze; Issue 84; Learning; Memory; Neurobiology; Neuropsychology; Rat behavioral tasks; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COGNITION; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84904575475     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/51316     Document Type: Article

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