Psychophysical similarities between rats and humans

Psychophysical Measurement of Odor Perception in Humans

Integrative mechanisms of blood pressure regulation in humans and rats: cross-species similarities.

As our understanding of the importance of individualized medicine continues to grow, the clinical relevance of interindividual variability in hemodynamic variables is receiving increasing attention. However, it is not known whether the rat, which is often used for studies of cardiovascular regulation, exhibits similar interindividual variability. In the present study, we evaluated whether the m...

Social learning from humans or conspecifics: differences and similarities between wolves and dogs

Most domestication hypotheses propose that dogs have been selected for enhanced communication and interactions with humans, including learning socially from human demonstrators. However, to what extent these skills are newly derived and to what extent they originate from wolf-wolf interactions is unclear. In order to test for the possible origins of dog social cognition, we need to compare the ...

Shifts in the psychophysical function in rats.

The primary goal was to compare results from a free-operant procedure with pigeons [Machado, A., Guilhardi, P., 2000. Shifts in the psychometric function and their implications for models of timing. J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 74, 25-54, Experiment 2] with new results obtained with rats. The secondary goal was to compare the results of both experiments with dependent variables that were not used in th...

Differences in urinary monochlorobenzene metabolites between rats and humans.

The high performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of p-chlorobenzene mercapturic acid and 4-chlorocatechol conjugates is described. For determination of urinary mercapturic acid, the benzene extract from urine was injected into a liquid chromatograph and for determination of urinary 4-chlorocatechol conjugates, hydrolysate was dissolved in methanol. The methanol solution ...