Very brief exposure to visual distal cues is sufficient for young mice to navigate in the Morris water maze

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-24

  Chapillon, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

C57BL 6; Development; Mice; Morris water maze; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; LEARNING; LIGHT; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL MEMORY; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EID: 0032917515     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(98)00057-6     Document Type: Article

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