Rodent Continuous Performance Task: Image rCPT for Rats for Physiological Research Instrumentation

The Image Continuous Performance Task is designed for controlled cognitive and physiological research involving attention, vigilance, visual discrimination and response inhibition. Manufactured by Atico Export with attention to applicable quality, safety and functional requirements for physiological research and laboratory applications.

• Designed to assess attentional processes and vigilance in rodents
• Provides a non-spatially divided attention task
• Helps minimize differences between pre-clinical and clinical attention tasks

Task principle :

• Uses five different black and white images
• Images are presented briefly, one at a time, in random order on the touch screen
• One image is designated as the target stimulus
• The subject must touch the target stimulus to obtain a reward
• The subject must withhold responses to non-target stimuli

Attention assessment :

• Assesses the ability to discriminate and remember target patterns
• Evaluates vigilance and perceptual sensitivity
• Uses sequential image presentation in the same screen position
• Provides a task structure comparable to typical human Continuous Performance Tasks