Prenatal-choline supplementation differentially modulates timing of auditory and visual stimuli in aged rats

Brain Research

Volumn 1237, Issue , 2008, Pages 167-175

  Cheng, Ruey Kuang ^a   Scott, Allison C ^a   Penney, Trevor B ^b   Williams, Christina L ^a   Meck, Warren H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Attention; Clock speed; Cognitive aging; Interval timing; Modality differences; Neural development; Prefrontal cortex; Prenatal nutrition; Stimulus intensity; Striatum; Time perception

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; DRINKING WATER;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HEARING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRAINING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOLINE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MALE; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 53249127373     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.08.062     Document Type: Article

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