Effects of exposure to 50 Hz magnetic field of 1 mT on the performance of detour learning task by chicks

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 74, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 178-182

  Che, Yi ^a,b,d   Sun, Huaying ^a,d   Cui, Yonghua ^b   Zhou, Dongming ^c,d   Ma, Yuanye ^a  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Detour learning; Learning and memory; Lohmann brown domestic chick; Low frequency magnetic field

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHICKENS; LEARNING; MAGNETICS; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34547499032     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2007.06.009     Document Type: Article

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