Dissociation of spatial reference memory, spatial working memory, and hippocampal mossy fiber distribution in two rat strains differing in emotionality

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 183-194

  Prior, Helmut ^a,c   Schwegler, Herbert ^b   Dücker, Gerti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

BDE; DA; Emotionality; Hippocampal mossy fibers; Multiple T maze; Radial maze; Rat; Reference memory; Spatial learning; Strain differences; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MOSSY FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030772685     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)02282-1     Document Type: Article

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