Age and time-of-day effects on learning and memory in a non-matching-to-sample test

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1107-1115

  Winocur, Gordon ^a,b,c   Hasher, Lynn ^b,c  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Animal model; Circadian rhythms; Cognition; Time of day effect

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DRINKING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 2942718737     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2003.10.005     Document Type: Article

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