Place avoidance tasks as tools in the behavioral neuroscience of learning and memory

Physiological Research

Volumn 62, Issue SUPPL 1, 2013, Pages

  Stuchlik A ^a   Petrasek T ^a   Prokopova I ^a   Holubova K ^a   Hatalova H ^a   Vales K ^a   Kubik S ^a   Dockery, C ^b   Wesierska, M ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b ALBSTADT SIGMARINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Behavioral tasks; Cognitive coordination; Learning; Lesions; Memory; Navigation; Neuropharmacology; Orientation; Place avoidance; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; MEMORY; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEUROSCIENCES; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84891647238     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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