Rats' learning of a new motor skill: Insight into the evolution of motor sequence learning

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 50-59

  Hermer Vazquez, Linda ^a   Moshtagh, Nasim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Grasping; Motor skill learning; Movement primitives; Reaching; Temporal order

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LEARNING; MOVEMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIMATE; RODENT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GRIP STRENGTH; LEARNING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; RAT; VIDEORECORDING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; LEARNING; MOTOR SKILLS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

MACACA; PRIMATES; RATTUS;

EID: 63349098958     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2008.12.022     Document Type: Article

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