Altered performance characteristics in cognitive tasks: Comparison of the albino ICR and CD1 mouse strains

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 351-361

  Adams, Benjamin ^a   Fitch, Thomas ^a   Chaney, Stephen ^a   Gerlai, Robert ^a  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fear; Freezing; Genetic background; Hippocampus; Learning and memory; Motor performance; Mouse; Mutation; Vision

Indexed keywords

ALBINISM; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEAR; GENE MUTATION; LEARNING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; OUTBREEDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; CUES; DARKNESS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; LIGHT; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037130358     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00020-7     Document Type: Article

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