Comparing memory-forming capabilities between laboratory-reared and wild Lymnaea: Learning in the wild, a heritable component of snail memory

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 2807-2816

  Orr, Michael V ^a   Hittel, Karla ^a   Lukowiak, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Environmental enrichment; Long term memory; Lymnaea; Operant conditioning; Wild

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; LYMNAEA; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NETHERLANDS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALBERTA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LEARNING; LYMNAEA; MEMORY; NETHERLANDS; NEURONS;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS;

EID: 53949096082     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.020172     Document Type: Article

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