Aged and adult rats compared in acquisition and extinction of escape from the water maze: Focus on individual differences

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 127-144

  Topic, Bianca ^a   Dere, Ekrem ^a   Schulz, Daniela ^a   De Souza Silva, Maria A ^a   Jocham, Gerhard ^a   Kart, Emriye ^a   Huston, Joseph P ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PERFORMANCE; RAT; REARING; REINFORCEMENT; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; ESCAPE REACTION; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; WATER;

EID: 14044266950     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.1.127     Document Type: Article

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