Spatial and nonspatial escape strategies in the Barnes maze

Learning and Memory

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 809-819

  Harrison, Fiona E ^a,b   Reiserer, Randall S ^a,b   Tomarken, Andrew J ^a   McDonald, Michael P ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TRAINING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33845334169     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.334306     Document Type: Article

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