Spatial alternation: the T-maze, their procedures and processes
Por:
Alejandra, Aguayo-Del Castillo, Hugo, Sanchez-Castillo, Cesar, Casasola-Castro
Publicada:
1 sep 2016
Resumen:
Spatial mazes associated with spatial alternation or conditional
election tasks has been widely used in psychology and more recently in
neurosciences as strong tools for the study of animal behavior and
cognition, particularly in the field of learning and memory. This
article provides a briefly review of the use of the T-maze in behavioral
research, especially in relation to spatial alternation and memory. On
this review highlights the use for over than a century of the spatial
mazes in the scientific research as well as the development of a wide
variety of forms, protocols and procedures. This review presents
evidence about the strategies to perform the task, the memory process
involved and the brain structures related, among these the hippocampus,
entorhinal cortex, striatum and medial frontal cortex.
Filiaciones:
Alejandra, Aguayo-Del Castillo:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Fac Psicol, Dept Psicobiol & Neurociencias, Ave Univ 3004, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico
Hugo, Sanchez-Castillo:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Fac Psicol, Dept Psicobiol & Neurociencias, Ave Univ 3004, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico
Cesar, Casasola-Castro:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Fac Psicol, Dept Psicobiol & Neurociencias, Ave Univ 3004, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico
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