Object recognition in rats and mice: A one-trial non-matching-to-sample learning task to study 'recognition memory'

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1306-1311

  Bevins, Rick A ^a   Besheer, Joyce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RECOGNITION;

ANIMALS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; RATS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 34347215149     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.205     Document Type: Article

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