Touchscreen tasks in mice to demonstrate differences between hippocampal and striatal functions

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 120, Issue , 2015, Pages 16-27

  Delotterie, David F ^a,b   Mathis, Chantal ^a   Cassel, Jean Christophe ^a   Rosenbrock, Holger ^b   Dorner Ciossek, Cornelia ^b   Marti, Anelise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associative memory; Dorsal striatum; Excitotoxic lesions; Hippocampus; Mice; Touchscreen tasks

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL COGNITIVE TEST; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRIATE CORTEX; T-MAZE TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCHSCREEN TASK; VISUO MOTOR CONDITIONAL LEARNING; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CORPUS STRIATUM; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CORPUS STRIATUM; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84923924141     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2015.02.007     Document Type: Article

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