Cognitive abilities on transitive inference using a novel touchscreen technology for mice

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1133-1142

  Silverman, J L ^a,b   Gastrell, P T ^b   Karras, M N ^b   Solomon, M ^a,c   Crawley, J N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Learning; Mouse model; Schizophrenia; Translational

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HABITUATION; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCHSCREEN TECHNOLOGY; TRANSITIVE INFERENCE ASSAY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION LEARNING TEST; ANIMAL; AUTISM; C57BL MOUSE; COMPUTER; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISEASE MODEL; EYE MOVEMENT; INBRED MOUSE STRAIN; MALE; MICROCOMPUTER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; COMPUTERS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE MOVEMENTS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICROCOMPUTERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84928881304     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht293     Document Type: Article

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