Mice and rats achieve similar levels of performance in an adaptive decision-making task

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Jaramillo, Santiago ^a,b   Zador, Anthony M ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Categorization; Cognition; Context; Flexibility; Psychometric; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; C57BL 6 MOUSE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HEARING ACUITY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 84907288709     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00173     Document Type: Article

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