Demonstration of nondeclarative sequence learning in mice: Development of an animal analog of the human serial reaction time task

Learning and Memory

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 720-723

  Christie, Michael A ^a   Hersch, Steven M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNIQUE; TRAINING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MODELS, ANIMAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 10044242826     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.85404     Document Type: Article

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