A 5-arm maze enables parallel measures of sustained visuo-spatial attention and spatial working memory in mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-53

  Durkin, Thomas P ^a   Beaufort, Christine ^a   Leblond, Laurent ^a   Maviel, Thibault ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

5 Arm maze; Cognition; Delayed matching to sample; Mouse; Spatial working memory; Sustained visuo spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; IMAGING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034669150     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(00)00248-5     Document Type: Article

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