Atropine-induced, state-dependent learning for spatial information, but not for visual cues

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 229-238

  Costa, Valéria Catelli Infantozzi ^a   Xavier, Gilberto Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atropine sulfate; Drug state dependent; Exploratory behavior; Hippocampus; Memory; Muscarinic cholinergic antagonist; Spatial discrimination; State dependent learning

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATROPINE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33947657398     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.02.007     Document Type: Article

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