Prenatal complex rhythmic music sound stimulation facilitates postnatal spatial learning but transiently impairs memory in the domestic chick

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 48-56

  Kauser, H ^a   Roy, S ^a   Pal, A ^a   Sreenivas, V ^a   Mathur, R ^a   Wadhwa, S ^a   Jain, S ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Domestic chick; Memory; Music; Prenatal sound stimulation; Spatial learning; Species specific sounds

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; HATCHING; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MUSIC; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHICK EMBRYO; CORTICOSTERONE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MUSIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERIODICITY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79953657720     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000322449     Document Type: Article

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