Decline in visual attention and spatial memory in aged rats

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 605-615

  Muir, J L ^a   Fischer, W ^b   Bjorklund A ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aged animals; Spatial memory; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; FEMALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VISION;

EID: 0033382563     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(99)00098-6     Document Type: Article

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