Age-dependent changes in spatial memory retention and flexibility in mice

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 143, Issue , 2017, Pages 59-66

  Guskjolen, Axel ^a,b   Josselyn, Sheena A ^a,b,c   Frankland, Paul W ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forgetting; Infantile amnesia; Memory; Mice; Ontogeny; Spatial; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INFANT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT; AGING; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MAZE TEST; TIME FACTOR;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPATIAL MEMORY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85009288443     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2016.12.006     Document Type: Article

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