T-maze forced alternation and left-right discrimination tasks for assessing working and reference memory in mice

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 60, 2012, Pages

  Shoji, Hirotaka ^a,b   Hagihara, Hideo ^a   Takao, Keizo ^c   Hattori, Satoko ^a,b,c   Miyakawa, Tsuyoshi ^a,b,c  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavior; Behavioral flexibility; Issue 60; Learning; Memory; Mouse; Neuroscience; T maze

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857842368     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3300     Document Type: Article

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