Serial Pattern Learning in Senescent Rats: A Comparison of Acquisition Performance with Young and Hippocampal-Lesioned Rats

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 137-149

  Compton, David M ^a   Bishop, Joy T ^a   Dietrich, Kerri L ^a  

^a GEORGIA COLLEGE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0030120077     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: 19400888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00221309.1996.9921267     Document Type: Article

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