Sex differences in radial maze performance: Influence of rearing environment and room cues

Psychobiology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-37

  Seymoure, Penny ^a   Dou, Hui ^a   Juraska, Janice M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; RAT; REARING; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0029984646     PISSN: 08896313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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