The mazes

The Maze Book: Theories, Practice, and Protocols for Testing Rodent Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 37-72

  Bimonte Nelson, Heather A ^a   Daniel, Jill M ^b   Koebele, Stephanie V ^a,c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Arizona Alzheimers Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Brain; Cognition; History; Learning; Maze; Memory; Mouse; Navigation; Nonspatial; Place; Protocol; Rat; Reference; Rodent; Spatial; Working

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996740554     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2159-1_2     Document Type: Chapter

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