The effect of age on a visual learning task in the American cockroach

Learning and Memory

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 210-223

  Brown, Sheena ^a   Strausfeld, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES; BRAIN; CUES; MEMORY; NEURONS; PERIPLANETA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SILVER STAINING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 61349129172     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.1241909     Document Type: Article

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