Choice Reaction Time Reaching Task for Non-human Primate

By Daisuke Kase, PhD and Robert Turner, PhD
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Description
This protocol describes the behavioral task used with both healthy and MPTP-induced hemiparkinsonian non-human primates in the Turner Lab at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the training procedure for introducing the task to naïve NHPs.
Identifier (DOI)
10.17504/protocols.io.6qpvrwoq2lmk/v1
Tags
  • Animal models
  • Behavior/Behavioral studies
  • Behavioral
  • Neurobehavioral
  • NHP (Non-Human Primate)
Team
Team Strick
Program
Collaborative Research Network
Theme
Circuitry and Brain-Body Interactions

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