Navigating to new frontiers in behavioral neuroscience: Traditional neuropsychological tests predict human performance on a rodent-inspired radial-arm maze

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Mennenga, Sarah E ^a,b   Baxter, Leslie C ^b,c   Grunfeld, Itamar S ^a,b   Brewer, Gene A ^a   Aiken, Leona S ^a   Engler Chiurazzi, Elizabeth B ^a,b   Camp, Bryan W ^a,b   Acosta, Jazmin I ^a,b   Braden, B Blair ^b,c   Schaefe, Keley R ^a,b   Gerson, Julia E ^a,b   Lavery, Courtney N ^a,b   Tsang, Candy W S ^a,b   Hewitt, Lauren T ^a,b   Kingston, Melissa L ^a,b   Koebele, Stephanie V ^a,b   Patten, K Jakob ^a   Ball, B Hunter ^a   McBeath, Michael K ^a   Bimonte Nelson, Heather A ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA ALZHEIMER S CONSORTIUM   (United States)

^c BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Human; Memory; Neuropsychological test; Rodent; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL CAPACITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIAL ARM MAZE TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84908212411     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00294     Document Type: Article

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