Spatial conditional discrimination learning in developing rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 97-110

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Configural learning; Hippocampus; Long Evans rat; Multiple memory systems; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; CONFIGURAL LEARNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; JUVENILE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REWARD; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPATIAL CONDITIONAL DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 16444372375     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20044     Document Type: Article

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