Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4314064 Behavioural Brain Research 2010 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

Selective attention was assessed in mice using a classical fear conditioning procedure. Mice were trained by three regimens involving contextual and/or cued conditioning (classical fear conditioning). Most notably, C57BL/6J mice exhibited salient contextual blocking, whereas DBA/2J and ICR mice did not. This study provides a new method to assess the selective attention of mice and describes an animal model for certain human mental disorders, such as schizophrenia.

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