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Poling, Alan; Weetjens, Bart; Cox, Christophe; Beyene, Negussie; Durgin, Amy; Mahoney, Amanda – Behavior Analyst, 2011
In recent years, operant discrimination training procedures have been used to teach giant African pouched rats to detect tuberculosis (TB) in human sputum samples. This article summarizes how the rats are trained and used operationally, as well as their performance in studies published to date. Available data suggest that pouched rats, which can…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Animals, Evaluation Methods, Investigations
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Roberts, Roberta D.; Humphreys, Glyn W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
The ability to report the temporal order of 2 tactile stimuli (1 applied to each hand) has been shown to decline when the arms are crossed over compared with when they are uncrossed. However, these effects have only been measured when temporal order was reported by stimulus location. It is unknown whether this spatial manipulation of the body…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Spatial Ability, Human Body, Human Posture