Fractionating the nonspatial pretraining effect in the water maze task

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1285-1291

  Hoh, Timothy E ^a   Cain, Donald Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; ESCAPE REACTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; ORIENTATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REACTION TIME; SCOPOLAMINE; SWIMMING;

EID: 0031463626     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.6.1285     Document Type: Article

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