Individual differences in the expression of a "general" learning ability in mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 6423-6433

  Matzel, Louis D ^a   Han, Yu Ray ^a   Grossman, Henya ^a   Karnik, Meghana S ^a   Patel, Dave ^a   Scott, Nicholas ^a   Specht, Steven M ^b   Gandhi, Chetan C ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTICA COLLEGE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Behavioral phenotypes; Emotional learning; Fluid intelligence; General intelligence; Genetic variation; Intelligence; Learning systems; Memory; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0042844734     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-16-06423.2003     Document Type: Article

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