Serial reversal learning of position discrimination in developing rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 79-94

  Watson, Deborah J ^a   Sullivan, Jesse R ^a   Frank, Julie G ^a   Stanton, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative interference; Basal forebrain; Learning set; Memory development; Prefrontal cortex; Spatial discrimination learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POSITION EFFECT; RAT; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; AGE; ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MAZE TEST; PHYSIOLOGY;

RATTUS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33745782585     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20106     Document Type: Article

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