October 1, 2002
Journal Article

Rats can discriminate illuminance, but not magnetic fields, as a stimulus for learning a two-choice discrimination.

Abstract

Abstract: Nine rats in each of two experiments were trained for 64 trials (8 trials per day) to determine if they could acquire a two-choice discrimination based on a specified discriminative stimulus (SD). In one experiment the SD was a change in ambient illumination while in the second experiment the SD was a change in the magnetic fields and any cues attendant to energizing the coils that produced the magnetic field exposure. The rats that had a change in illuminance as the SD learned the two-choice task easily, p

Revised: November 29, 2010 | Published: October 1, 2002

Citation

Creim J.A., R.H. Lovely, D.L. Miller, and L.E. Anderson. 2002. Rats can discriminate illuminance, but not magnetic fields, as a stimulus for learning a two-choice discrimination. Bioelectromagnetics 23, no. 7:545-9. PNWD-SA-5403. doi:10.1002/bem.10052