Otoconia-deficient mice show selective spatial deficits

Hippocampus

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1169-1177

  Yoder, Ryan M ^a   Kirby, Seth L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

Author keywords

Otolith organs; Radial arm maze; Spatial memory; Spatial orientation; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BARNES MAZE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARM MAZE TEST; REFERENCE MEMORY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84927581257     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22300     Document Type: Article

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