Cognitive testing of pigs (Sus scrofa) in translational biobehavioral research

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 437-451

  Kornum, Birgitte R ^a   Knudsen, Gitte M ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Behavioral paradigms; Cognition; Learning; Memory; Operant conditioning; Pig; Sus scrofus; Swine

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPLEX MAZE TEST; DOMESTIC PIG; EIGHT ARM RADIAL MAZE TEST; EMOTIONALITY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MAMMAL; MAZE TEST; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL TASK; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MOTIVATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; REVIEW; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SENSORY NERVE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SUS SCROFA; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

EID: 78649907781     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.05.004     Document Type: Review

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