Performance norms for a rhesus monkey neuropsychological testing battery: Acquisition and long-term performance

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 185-201

  Weed, Michael R ^a   Taffe, Michael A ^a   Polis, Ilham ^a   Roberts, Angela C ^b   Robbins, Trevor W ^c   Koob, George F ^a   Bloom, Floyd E ^a   Gold, Lisa H ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CANTAB; Cognition; Memory; Motor behavior; Neuropsychology; Rhesus monkey

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RHESUS MONKEY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COGNITION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

EID: 0032755265     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(99)00020-8     Document Type: Article

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