Of mice and mazes: Similarities between mice and rats on dry land but not water mazes

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1191-1197

  Whishaw, Ian Q ^a   Tomie, Jo Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mouse spatial learning; Place learning in mice; Place learning in rats; Rat spatial learning; Rodent spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWIMMING POOL;

EID: 0342723194     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(96)00176-X     Document Type: Article

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