Spatial memory: Behavioral determinants of persistence in the watermaze delayed matching-to-place task

Learning and Memory

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 28-36

  Da Silva, Bruno M ^a   Bast, Tobias ^a,b   Morris, Richard G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY TEST; SWIMMING; TRAINING; WATERMAZE DELAYED MATCHING TO PLACE TASK;

ANIMALS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84892578229     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.032169.113     Document Type: Article

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