Do sperm cells remember?

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 325-328

  Brugger, Peter ^a   Macas, Ervin ^b   Ihlemann, Jürgen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c LASER LABORATORIUM GÖTTINGEN E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human spermatozoa; Physiological memory; Refractory processes; Spontaneous alternation behavior

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM TAIL; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0037126178     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00127-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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