Rats can discriminate illuminance, but not magnetic fields, as a stimulus for learning a two‐choice discrimination | Zendy

Creim J.A. | Zendy; Lovely R.H. | Zendy; Miller D.L. | Zendy; Anderson L.E. | Zendy

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

Author(s) -

Creim J.A.,

Lovely R.H.,

Miller D.L.,

Anderson L.E.

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

bioelectromagnetics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.435

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1521-186X

pISSN - 0197-8462

DOI - 10.1002/bem.10052

Subject(s) - illuminance , stimulus (psychology) , stimulus control , discriminative model , audiology , artificial intelligence , psychology , computer science , optics , cognitive psychology , medicine , physics , neuroscience , nicotine

In each of the two experiments, nine rats were trained for 64 trials (eight trials per day) to determine if they could acquire a two‐choice discrimination based on a specified discriminative stimulus (S D ). In one experiment, the S D was a change in ambient illumination, while in the second experiment the S D was a change in the combination of sinusoidal 60 Hz and static magnetic field (MF) and any cues attendant to energizing the coils that produced the MF exposure. The rats that had a change in illuminance as the S D learned the two‐choice task easily, P < .001, whereas the rats having a change in MFs as the S D did not. Bioelectromagnetics 23:545–549, 2002. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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