Vestibular influence on water maze retention: Transient whole body rotations improve the accuracy of the cue-based retention strategy

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 183-187

  McGauran, Anne Marie T ^a   O'Mara, Shane M ^b   Commins, Sean ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Distal cues; Retention; Spatial memory; Vestibular rotation; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VESTIBULAR NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); ROTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 12944326297     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.08.013     Document Type: Article

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