Maze model to study spatial learning and memory in freely moving monkeys

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 111-116

  Zhang, Bo ^a,d   Tan, Hua ^c   Sun, Ning Lei ^a,d   Wang, Jian Hong ^a,d   Meng, Zhi Qiang ^a,d   Li, Chuan Yu ^e   Fraser, Wilson A W ^a   Hu, Xin Tian ^a,b,h   Carlson, Synnöve ^f   Ma, Yuan Ye ^a,g,h  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CHINA   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^h Kunming Biomed International   (China)

Author keywords

Freely moving monkeys; Spatial learning and memory; Three dimensional maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 41149140753     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2007.12.017     Document Type: Article

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