Specificity of memory measures in an adjusting delayed nonmatching-to-position task for rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 107-113

  Robinson, John K ^a   Scheff, Allison ^a   Pierre Louis, Joanne ^a   Han, C J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Discrimination; Hippocampus; Motivation; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034659660     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(00)00149-2     Document Type: Article

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