Aged rats are impaired on an attentional set-shifting task sensitive to medial frontal cortex damage in young rats

Learning and Memory

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 191-201

  Barense, Morgan D ^a   Fox, Matthew T ^a   Baxter, Mark G ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FRONTAL CORTEX; HABITUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REWARD; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD; SPACE PERCEPTION; WATER;

EID: 0036667081     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.48602     Document Type: Article

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