Using the context preexposure facilitation effect to study long-term context memory in preweanling, juvenile, adolescent, and adult rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 148, Issue , 2015, Pages 22-28

  Robinson Drummer, Patrese A ^a   Stanton, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Contextual fear; Hippocampus; Infantile amnesia; Prefrontal cortex; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTEXT PREEXPOSURE FACILITATION EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING; INFANTILE AMNESIA; JUVENILE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRAINING; AGING; ANIMAL; CATALEPSY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ELECTROSHOCK; LONG EVANS RAT; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL LEARNING; TIME FACTOR;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; SPATIAL LEARNING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84988253965     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.12.033     Document Type: Article

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