Pattern separation deficits may contribute to age-associated recognition impairments

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 559-573

  Burke, Sara N ^a   Wallace, Jenelle L ^a   Nematollahi, Saman ^a   Uprety, Ajay R ^a   Barnes, Carol A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Memory; Perception; Perirhinal cortex; Rat

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPONTANEOUS OBJECT RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 77958124581     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020893     Document Type: Article

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