Redistribution of spatial representation in the hippocampus of aged rats performing a spatial memory task

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1006-1016

  Mizumori, Sheri J Y ^a   Lavoie, Annette M ^a   Kalyani, Anjali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0029974070     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.5.1006     Document Type: Article

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