Use of a delayed non-matching to position task to model age-dependent cognitive decline in the dog

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 47-56

  Adams, Beth ^a   Chan, Alan ^a   Callahan, Heather ^a   Siwak, Christina ^a   Tapp, Dwight ^b   Ikeda Douglas, Candace ^a   Atkinson, Patricia ^b   Head, Elizabeth ^c   Cotman, Carl W ^c   Milgram, Norton W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Canine; Cognition; Delayed non matching to position; Dog; Memory; Spatial

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DOG; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; DOGS; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 17144436887     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(99)00132-1     Document Type: Article

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