Water version of the radial-arm maze: Learning in three inbred strins of mice

Brain Research

Volumn 785, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 236-244

  Hyde, Lynn A ^a   Hoplight, Blair J ^a   Denenberg, Victor H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

BXSB; C57BL 6; Inbred mice; Learning; Memory load; NZB; Radial arm maze; Reference memory; Spatial; Win shift; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; INBRED STRAIN; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; CUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWIMMING;

EID: 0032473584     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01417-0     Document Type: Article

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