Development of vicarious trial-and-error behavior in odor discrimination learning in the rat: Relation to hippocampal function?

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 67-70

  Hu, Dan ^a   Griesbach, Grace ^a   Amsel, Abram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Development; Hippocampus; Nonspatial learning; Olfaction; Simultaneous discrimination; Vicarious trial and error

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SMELL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0030951425     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(96)02247-4     Document Type: Article

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