Spatial working memory and reference memory of Brown Norway and WAG rats in a holeboard discrimination task

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 113-125

  Van Der Staay, F Josef ^a  

^a BAYER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Rat; Reference memory; Response strategy; Speed of responding; Strain differences; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0032816358     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1998.3860     Document Type: Article

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