Adaptive changes in a radial maze task: Efficient selection of baited arms with reduced foraging in senescent hooded rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 161-166

  Grandchamp, Nicolas ^a   Schenk, Françoise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aging; Olfaction; Radial maze; Rats; Reference memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FORAGING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENESCENCE; SMELLING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGING; ANIMALS; CUES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FOOD; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SMELL; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 31444450889     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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