The delayed non-match-to-sample radial arm maze task: Application to models of alzheimer’s disease

Methods of Behavior Analysis in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 167-187

  Boast, Carl A ^a   Walsh, Thomas J ^b   Bartolomeo, Adam C ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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