Age-related deficits in the ability to encode contextual change: A place cell analysis

Hippocampus

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 338-350

  Oler, Jonathan A ^a   Markus, Etan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Episodic memory; Navigation; Rats; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WORKING MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033920579     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1098-1063(2000)10:3<338::AID-HIPO14>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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