Wistar rats with high versus low rearing activity differ in radial maze performance

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 175-187

  Görisch, Jutta ^a   Schwarting, Rainer K W ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Motivation; Open field; Radial maze; Rearing; Reference memory; Spatial learning; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; RAT; REARING; REWARD; TRAINING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENETICS, BEHAVIORAL; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERAMENT;

EID: 33747827849     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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