Nicotine interacts with sex in affecting rat choice between 'look-out' and 'navigational' cognitive styles in the morris water maze place learning task

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 441-445

  Kanit, Lütfiye ^a,b   Taşkiran, Dilek ^a,b   Furedy, John J ^a,c   Kulali, Berrin ^a   McDonald, Rob ^c   Pöǧün, Şakire ^a,b  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF TURKEY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive strategies; Nicotine; Place learning; Sex differences; Water maze

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; LEARNING TEST; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0344541827     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(98)00008-2     Document Type: Article

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