Landmark learning in a navigation task is not affected by the female rats' estrus cycle;El aprendizaje en base a puntos de referencia en una tarea de navegación no se ve afectado por el ciclo estral de la rata

Psicologica

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 279-299

  Rodríguez, Clara A ^a   Aguilar, Raúl ^b   Chamizo, V D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959898807     PISSN: 02112159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Berry, B., McMahan, R., & Gallagher, M. (1997). Spatial learning and memory at defined points of the estrus cycle: effects on performance of a hippocampal-dependent task. Behavioural 4euroscience, 111, 267-274.
2. Chamizo, V.D., Rodrigo, T., Peris, J.M., & Grau, M. (2006). The influence of landmark salience in a navigation task: an additive effect between its components. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32, 339-344.
3. Feder, H. H. (1981). Estrous cyclicity in mammals. In N. J. Adler (Ed.), Neuroendocrinology of reproduction physiology and behavior (pp. 279-348). New York: Plenum Press.
4. Field, A. (2009). Discovering statistics using spss, 3rd ed. Sage Publications, London.
5. Forcano, L., Santamaría, J. J., Mackintosh, N. J., & Chamizo, V. D. (2009). Single landmark learning: sex differencies in a navigation task. Learning and Motivation, 40, 46-61.
6. Frye, C. A. (1995). Estrus-associated decrements in a water maze task are limited to acquisition. Phsysiology and Behavior, 57, 5-14.
7. Good, M. (2002). Spatial memory and hippocampal function: Where are we now? Psicológica, 23, 109-138.
8. Hamilton, D. A., Akers, K. G., Johnson, T. E., Rice, J. P., Candelaria, F. T., Sutherland, R.J., Weisend, M. P., & Redhead, E. S. (2008). The relative influence of place and direction in the Morris water task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 34, 31-53.
9. Hamilton, D.A., Johnson, T.E., Redhead, E.S., & Verney, S.P. (2009). Control of rodent and human spatial navigation by room and apparatus cues. Behavioural Processes, 81, 154-169.
10. Harrels, L. E., Pleagler, A., Parson, D. S., Litersky, J., & Barlow, T. S. (1993). Female circulating sex hormones and hippocampal sympathetic ingrowth. Behavioral Brain Research, 55, 29-38.
11. Healy, S. D., Braham, S. R., & Braithwaite, V. A. (1999). Spatial working memory in rats: no differences between the sexes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 266, 2303-2308.
12. Jonasson, Z. (2005). Meta-analysis of sex differences in rodent models of learning and memory: a review of behavioral and biological data. 4euroscience & Behavioral Reviews, 28, 811-825.
13. Marcondes, F. K., Bianchi, F. J., & Tanno, A. P. (2002). Determination of the estrous cycle phases of rats: some helpful considerations. Brazilian Journal of Biology, 62, 609-614.
14. Markus, E. J., & Zecevic, M. (1997). Sex differences and estrus cycle changes in hippocampal-dependent fear conditioning. Psychobiology, 25, 246-52.
15. Morris, R. G. M. (1981). Spatial localization does not require the presence of local cues. Learning and Motivation, 12, 239-260.
16. Morris, R. G. M., Garrud, P., Rawlins, J. N. P., & O'Keefe, J. (1982). Place-navigation impaired in rats with hippocampal lesions. 4ature, 297, 681-683.
17. O'Keefe, J., & Nadel, L. (1978). The hippocampus as a cognitive map. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
18. Pearce, J. M., Roberts, A. D. L., & Good, M. A. (1998). Hippocampal lesions disrupt navigation based on cognitive maps but not heading vectors. 4ature, 396, 75-77.
19. Pearce, J. M., Graham, M., Good, M. A., Jones, P. M., & McGregor, A. (2006). Potentiation, overshadowing, and blocking of spatial learning based on the shape of the environment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32, 201-214.
20. Prados, J., & Trobalon, J.B. (1998). Locating an invisible goal in a water maze requires at least two landmarks. Psychobiology, 26, 42-48.
21. Rodríguez, C. A., Torres, A. A., Mackintosh, N. J., & Chamizo, V. D. (2010). Sex differences in preferential strategies to solve a navigation task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 36, 395-401.
22. Rodrigo, T., Chamizo, V.D., McLaren, I.P.L., & Mackintosh, N.J. (1997). Blocking in the spatial domain. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 23, 110-118.
23. Roof, R. L., & Stein, D. G. (1999). Gender differences in Morris water maze performance depend on task parameters. Physiology and Behavior, 68, 81-86.
24. Sava, S., & Markus, E. J. (2005). Intramaze cue utilization in the water maze: effects of sex and estrus cycle in rats. Hormones and Behavior, 48, 23-33.
25. Sherry, D. & Healy, S. (1998). Neural mechanisms of spatial representation. En S. Healy (Ed.), Spatial representation in animals. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
26. Shors, T. J. (2004). Learning during stressful times. Learning and Memory, 11, 137-144.
27. Singh, M., Meyer, E. M., Millard, W. J., & Simpkins, J. W. (1994). Ovarian steroids deprivation results in a reversible learning impairment and compromised cholinergic function in female Sprague-Dawley rats. Brain Research, 644, 305-312.
28. Sutherland, R. J., Whishaw, Q., & Kolb, B. (1983). A behavioral analysis of spatial localization following electrolytic, kamate-or colchicine-induced damage to the hippocampal formation in the rat. Behavioral Brain Research, 7, 133-153.
29. Warren, S. G., & Juraska, J. M. (1997). Spatial learning across the rat estrus cycle. Behavioral 4euroscience, 111, 255-266.
30. Whitten, W. K. (1966). Pheromones and mammalian reproduction. Advances in Reproductive Physiology, 1, 155-177.
31. Williams, C. L., Barnett, A. M., & Meck, W. H. (1990). Organizational effects of early gonadal secretions on sexual differentiation in spatial memory. Behavioral 4euroscience, 104, 84-97.
32. Woolley, C. S. (2007). Acute effects of estrogen in neurology. Annual Reviews of Pharmacology and Toxicology, 47, 657-680.
33. Woolley, C. S., & McEwen, B. S. (1992). Roles of estradiol and progesterone in regulation of the hippocampal dendritic spine density during the estrus cycle in rat. Journal of Comparative 4eurology, 336, 293-306.