Performance of juvenile baboons on neuropsychological tests assessing associative learning, motivation and attention

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 219-225

  Zürcher, Nicole R ^a   Rodriguez, Jesse S ^a   Jenkins, Sue L ^a   Keenan, Kate ^b   Bartlett, Thad Q ^c   McDonald, Thomas J ^a   Nathanielsz, Peter W ^a   Nijland, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Learning; Memory; Operant conditioning; Positive reinforcement; Set shifting

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BABOON; CAMBRIDGE NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST AUTOMATED BATTERY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ETHOLOGY; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PAPIO; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77951205521     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.02.011     Document Type: Article

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