Learning under stress: The inverted-U-shape function revisited

Learning and Memory

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 522-530

  Salehi, Basira ^a   Cordero, M Isabel ^a   Sandi, Carmen ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LEARNING TEST; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; NOVEL OBJECT REACTIVITY TEST; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECALL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STRESS; TEMPERATURE STRESS; TRAINING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; MOTIVATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78649628766     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.1914110     Document Type: Article

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