Age-related differences for duration discrimination in rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 555-558

  Leblanc, Pascale ^a   Weyers, Marc Henri ^a   Soffié, Monique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aging; Rodents; Symbolic matching to sample; Time

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SENESCENCE;

EID: 0030220575     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(96)00141-2     Document Type: Article

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