In two species, females exhibit superior working memory and inferior reference memory on the water radial-arm maze

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 70, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 311-317

  Bimonte, Heather A ^a   Hyde, Lynn A ^a   Hoplight, Blair J ^a   Denenberg, Victor H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Mouse; Radial arm maze; Rat; Reference memory; Sex differences; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0033826237     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(00)00259-6     Document Type: Article

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