Sex differences in learning and inhibition in spontaneously hypertensive rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-32

  Bucci, David J ^a   Hopkins, Michael E ^a   Keene, Christopher S ^a   Sharma, Mita ^a   Orr, Lauren E ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Feature negative discrimination; Occasion setting

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REINFORCEMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 36749034775     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.08.022     Document Type: Article

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