Peak Procedure Performance in Young Adult and Aged Rats: Acquisition and Adaptation to a Changing Temporal Criterion

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 193-217

  Lejeune, Helga ^a   Ferrara, André ^a   Soffié, Monique ^b   Bronchart, Marie ^b   Wearden, John H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGE; AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032133855     PISSN: 02724995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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