Contextual modulation of spatial discrimination reversal in developing rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 36-46

  Pagani, Jerome H ^a   Brown, Kevin L ^a   Stanton, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Context; Discrimination learning; Learning reversal; Position habit; Proactive interference; Retrieval

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WATER DEPRIVATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REVERSAL LEARNING; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH;

EID: 12144282713     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20041     Document Type: Article

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