Age-related modifications of contextual information processing in rats: Role of emotional reactivity, arousal and testing procedure

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 114, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 153-165

  Doyère, Valérie ^a   Gisquet Verrier, Pascale ^a   De Marsanich, Benedetta ^b   Ammassari Teule, Martine ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Servizio di Radiologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Context; Emotion; Fear conditioning; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEAR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHOCK; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMAL; AROUSAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; ELECTROSHOCK; EMOTIONS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL PROCESSES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0342409469     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(00)00223-0     Document Type: Article

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