Interaction between the nature of the information and the cognitive requirement of the task in problem solving in mice

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 289-300

  Wolff, Mathieu ^a   Benhassine, Narimane ^a   Costet, Pierre ^b   Segu, Louis ^a   Buhot, Marie Christine ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Behavioral flexibility; Mice; Radial arm water maze; Spatial and visual discrimination; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; CUES; ESCAPE REACTION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE PERCEPTION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 7044274260     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.06.016     Document Type: Article

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