Omission of the habituation procedure in the acquisition of a working memory task - evidence from Balb/c, C57/BL6J, and CD-1 mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 203-210

  Ennaceur, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Latent learning; Maze; Mice; Spatial navigation; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; ERROR; FEAR; HABITUATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79956226814     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.04.035     Document Type: Article

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