Age-related changes in associative learning for olfactory and visual stimuli in rodents

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1170, Issue , 2009, Pages 718-724

  Gilbert, Paul E ^a,b,c   Pirogovsky, Eva ^a   Brushfield, Andrea M ^a   Luu, Trinh T ^a   Tolentino, Jerlyn C ^a   Renteria, Adam F ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Context; Learning; Memory; Olfactory; Visual object

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY MEMORY; RAT; RODENT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SMELLING; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 68649117133     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.03929.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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