Novel behavioral tasks for studying spatial cognition in rats
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Novel behavioral tasks for studying spatial cognition in rats.
Spatial tasks in rodents are commonly used to study general mechanisms of cognition. We review two groups of novel spatial tasks for rodents and discuss how they can extend our understanding of mechanisms of spatial cognition. The first group represents spatial tasks in which the subject does not locomote. Locomotion influences neural activity in brain structures important for spatial cognition...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physiological Research
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1802-9973,0862-8408
DOI: 10.33549/physiolres.931609