Post-training self administration of sugar facilitates cognitive performance of male C57BL/6J mice in two spatial learning tasks

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 98-104

  Dalm, Sergiu ^a   Schwabe, Lars ^a,b   Schachinger, Hartmut ^b   Oitzl, Melly S ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Circular hole board; Memory facilitation; Mice; Reinforcement; Self administration; Water maze

Indexed keywords

SUGAR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING TEST; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATES; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; REWARD; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58549100056     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.10.016     Document Type: Article

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