A Comparison of Discrimination and Reversal Learning for Olfactory and Visual Stimuli in Aged Rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 54-62

  Brushfield, Andrea M ^a   Luu, Trinh T ^a   Callahan, Bryan D ^a   Gilbert, Paul E ^a,b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; discrimination; olfactory; reversal learning; visual object

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; RAT; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; ODORS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REVERSAL LEARNING; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL;

EID: 40749162266     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.122.1.54     Document Type: Article

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