Towards the characterization of short-term memory of zebrafish: Effect of fixed versus random reward location

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 56, Issue , 2015, Pages 189-195

  Fernandes, Yohaan ^a   Talpos, Andrea ^a   Gerlai, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Behavioral phenotyping; High throughput; Short term memory; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; AUTOANALYSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; FIXED REWARD; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; RANDOM REWARD; REWARD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ZEBRA FISH; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; REWARD; TIME FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84908052867     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: 18784216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2014.09.006     Document Type: Article

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