Working and reference memory of pigs in the spatial holeboard discrimination task

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 303-306

  Arts, Johanna W M ^a,b   van der Staay, F Josef ^c,d   Ekkel, E Dinand ^a,e  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Faculty of Veterinary Medicine   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e Professional Agricultural University   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Learning; Motivation; Pig; Spatial memory; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE MEMORY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STRESS; SWINE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70349293642     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.06.014     Document Type: Article

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