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60-Hz electric fields: Detection by female rats

✍ Scribed by Sander Stern; Victor G. Laties

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1985
Tongue: English
Weight: 308 KB
Volume: 6
Category: Article
ISSN: 0197-8462
DOI: 10.1002/bem.2250060110

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✦ Synopsis

Female rats were trained to detect a vertical, 60-Hz electric field using the same apparatus and procedure we used previously to study behavioral detection of the field by male rats. Each rat was trained individually to press a lever in the presence of the field and not to press in its absence. Correct detections occasionally produced a food pellet. The probability of detecting the field increased as field strength increased. The threshold of detection -ie, the field strength required for detections at a probability of 0.5 after correction for errors-varied among rats between 3 and 10 kV/m.Behavioral detection by female rats was indistinguishable from that by male rats.

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