Light deprivation-related changes of strategy selection in the radial arm maze

Physiological Research

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 123-128

  Salami, Mahmoud ^a  

^a KASHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Learning and memory; Radial maze; Sensory experience; Sex difference; Strategy selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; LIGHT; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; LIGHT; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VISION;

EID: 33947521371     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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