Domain-specific and domain-general learning factors are expressed in genetically heterogeneous CD-1 mice

Intelligence

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 619-629

  Kolata, Stefan ^a   Light, Kenneth ^a   Matzel, Louis D ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive abilities; Hippocampus; Intelligence; Learning; Mice; Spatial learning; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 48549102424     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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