A rapid test of rodents' vision using a modified open field apparatus.
Rats' responses to visual change in the environment were recorded in open field arenas in which a part or all of the visual environment could be altered without changing nonvisual features. Rats responded to a change in the appearance of one quadrant of a field by selectively reexploring the changed quadrant, and to a change in the whole environment by generally increasing their locomotor activity. The latter effect was equally large whether the change was from a patterned to a blank environment, or vice-versa. The present paradigms provide a rapid means of testing animals' vision.
CNRS-LNC, Marseille, France.
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D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention; D005106:Exploratory Behavior; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010865:Pilot Projects; D051381:Rats; D012931:Social Environment; D014796:Visual Perception