Knowing which and knowing what: A potential mouse model for age-related human declarative memory decline

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3312-3322

  Marighetto, Aline ^a   Etchamendy, Nicole ^a   Touzani, Khalid ^a   Torrea, Cedric Cortes ^a   Yee, Benjamin K ^b   Rawlins, John Nicholas P ^c   Jaffard, Robert ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Radial maze; Relational processing; Simultaneous discrimination; Successive discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SENESCENCE;

EID: 0032880092     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00741.x     Document Type: Article

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