The ability of different strains of rats to acquire a visual nonmatching-to-sample task

Psychobiology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 44-48

  Aggleton, John P ^a,b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOBIOLOGY; RAT; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0029968381     PISSN: 08896313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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