Effects of age on short-term memory for time in rats

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 267-284

  Leblanc, Pascale ^a   Soffié, Monique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; MALE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032771514     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/036107399244039     Document Type: Article

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