Selective attention is a primary determinant of the relationship between working memory and general learning ability in outbred mice

Learning and Memory

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 22-28

  Kolata, Stefan ^a   Light, Kenneth ^a   Grossman, Henya C ^a   Hale, Gregory ^a   Matzel, Louis D ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; LEARNING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OUTBRED STRAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 33846813329     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.408507     Document Type: Article

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