Comparison of developmental trajectories for place and cued navigation in the Morris water task

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 553-564

  Akers, Katherine G ^a   Hamilton, Derek A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caudate; Episodic memory; Hippocampus; Learning strategy; Ontogeny; Rat; Sex difference; Spatial learning; Spatial navigation; Striatum; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; RAT; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; WATER;

RATTUS;

EID: 34548272612     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20227     Document Type: Article

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