Search strategies in a human water maze analogue analyzed with automatic classification methods

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 169-177

  Schoenfeld, Robby ^a   Moenich, Nadine ^a   Mueller, Franz Josef ^b   Lehmann, Wolfgang ^c   Leplow, Bernd ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age differences; Non negative matrix factorization; Place learning; Search strategies; Sex differences; Track data

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BEHAVIOR; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFIER; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PLACE LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEARCH STRATEGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPARSE NONNEGATIVE MATRIX FACTORIZATION; VALIDITY; VIRTUAL WATER MAZE; AGE; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951894048     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.11.022     Document Type: Article

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