Cued platform training reveals early development of directional responding among preweanling rats in the Morris water task

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-12

  Akers, Katherine G ^a,c   Candelaria Cook, Felicha T ^a   Rice, James P ^a   Johnson, Travis E ^a   Hamilton, Derek A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Development; Hippocampus; Ontogeny; Place cells; Place learning; Rat; Sex difference; Spatial learning; Spatial memory; Spatial navigation; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEWBORN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CUES; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX FACTORS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 78650189562     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20480     Document Type: Article

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