Prepulse inhibition predicts working memory performance whilst startle habituation predicts spatial reference memory retention in C57BL/6 mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 242, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 166-177

  Singer, Philipp ^a,c   Hauser, Jonas ^a,d   Lopez, Luis LLano ^a,b   Peleg Raibstein, Daria ^a   Feldon, Joram ^a   Gargiulo, Pascual A ^b   Yee, Benjamin K ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CUYO   (Argentina)

^c LEGACY RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Correlation; Individual difference; Learning; Prepulse inhibition; Schizophrenia; Sensorimotor gating

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEAR; HABITUATION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MORRIS WATER MAZE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; STARTLE REFLEX; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; STARTLE REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84872511673     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.12.011     Document Type: Article

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