Retention of cue-based associations in the water maze is time-dependent and sensitive to disruption by rotating the starting position

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 151, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 255-266

  McGauran, Anne Marie T ^a   Harvey, Deirdre ^a   Cunningham, Lorretto ^a   Craig, Sarah ^a   Commins, Sean ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cue rotation; Retention; Spatial memory; Starting position rotation; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; EXPERIMENTATION; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 12944332216     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2003.09.005     Document Type: Article

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