Effects of environmental enrichment on rate of contextual processing and discriminative ability in adult rats

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-10

  Woodcock, Elizabeth A ^a   Richardson, Rick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contextual conditioning; Contextual discrimination; Environmental enrichment; Immediate shock freezing deficit

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENVIRONMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

EID: 0034064495     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1999.3911     Document Type: Article

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