Aging and time-of-day effects on cognition in rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 991-997

  Winocur, Gordon ^a,b   Hasher, Lynn ^c  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

EID: 0033510749     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.5.991     Document Type: Article

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