Journal article
Improvements and important considerations for the 5-choice serial reaction time task—An effective measurement of visual attention in rats
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The 5-choice serial reaction time task (5-CSRTT) is an automated operant conditioning task that measures rodent attention. The task allows the measurement of several parameters such as response accuracy, speed of processing, motivation, and impulsivity. The task has been widely used to investigate attentional processes in rodents for attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder and has expanded to other illnesses such as Alzheimer's …
Authors
Bhandari J; Daya R; Mishra RK
Journal
Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Vol. 270, , pp. 17–29
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
September 2016
DOI
10.1016/j.jneumeth.2016.06.002
ISSN
0165-0270