Up-regulation of exploratory tendencies does not enhance general learning abilities in juvenile or young-adult outbred mice

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 317-329

  Light, Kenneth R ^a   Kolata, Stefan ^a   Hale, Gregory ^a   Grossman, Henya ^a   Matzel, Louis D ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental enrichment; Exploration; General intelligence; Learning; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

AGING; ANIMALS; APTITUDE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ESCAPE REACTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SMELL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 48549089306     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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