Cognitive performance of low-and normal-birth-weight piglets in a spatial hole-board discrimination task

Pediatric Research

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 71-76

  Gieling, Elise T ^a,b   Park, Soon Y ^a,b   Nordquist, Rebecca E ^a,b   Van Der Staay, Franz J ^a,b  

^a Faculty of Veterinary Medicine   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; COGNITION; LATENT PERIOD; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PIGLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE MEMORY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL HOLE BOARD DISCRIMINATION TASK; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SWINE;

EID: 83655197523     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pr.2011.5     Document Type: Article

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