Stern S, Laties V G
Bioelectromagnetics. 1985;6(1):99-103. doi: 10.1002/bem.2250060110.
Female rats were trained to detect a vertical, 60-Hz electric field using the same apparatus and procedure we used previously to study behavioral detection of the field by male rats. Each rat was trained individually to press a lever in the presence of the field and not to press in its absence. Correct detections occasionally produced a food pellet. The probability of detecting the field increased as field strength increased. The threshold of detection--ie, the field strength required for detections at a probability of 0.5 after correction for errors--varied among rats between 3 and 10 kV/m. Behavioral detection by female rats was indistinguishable from that by male rats.
使用我们之前用于研究雄性大鼠对电场行为检测的相同仪器和程序，训练雌性大鼠检测垂直的60赫兹电场。每只大鼠单独接受训练，在电场存在时按压杠杆，在电场不存在时不按压。正确检测偶尔会产生一颗食物颗粒。随着电场强度增加，检测到电场的概率也增加。检测阈值——即校正误差后检测概率为0.5时所需的电场强度——在不同大鼠之间为3至10 kV/m。雌性大鼠的行为检测与雄性大鼠的行为检测没有区别。
