Journal of neuroscience methods
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J. Neurosci. Methods · Feb 2015
Assessment of attention threshold in rats by titration of visual cue duration during the five choice serial reaction time task.
The 5 choice serial reaction time task (5CSRTT) is commonly used to assess attention in rodents. We sought to develop a variant of the 5CSRTT that would speed training to objective success criteria, and to test whether this variant could determine attention capability in each subject. ⋯ The titration 5CSRTT method is an efficient training procedure for assessing attention and can be utilized to assess the limit in performance ability across subjects and various schedule manipulations.