Environmental enrichment from birth enhances visual acuity but not place learning in mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 114, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 11-15

  Prusky, Glen T ^a   Reidel, Candace ^a   Douglas, Robert M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acuity; Mouse; Plasticity; Spatial learning; Vision; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0034283099     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(00)00186-8     Document Type: Article

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