Vision Guides Selection of Freeze or Flight Defense Strategies in Mice

Current Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 2150-2154

  De Franceschi, Gioia ^a   Vivattanasarn, Tipok ^a   Saleem, Aman B ^b   Solomon, Samuel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

innate behavior; mouse; predator and prey; visual pathways

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; C57BL MOUSE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84995578468     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.06.006     Document Type: Article

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