Little and often? Maintaining continued performance in an automated T-maze for mice

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 272-278

  Gaskill, Brianna N ^a   Lucas, Jeffrey R ^b   Pajor, Edmond A ^a,c   Garner, Joseph P ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Learning; Maze; Mice; Reward size; Session length

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LEARNING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REWARD; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOOD; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; REWARD; SATIATION;

MUS;

EID: 79551683358     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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