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Article: Researchers from University of Cambridge, Department of Experimental Psychology report details of new studies and findings in the area of life sciences.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- September 3, 2008
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Fresh data on life sciences are presented in the report 'Hippocampal lesions in rats impair learning and memory for locations on a touch-sensitive computer screen: the "ASAT" task.' According to a study from the United Kingdom, "It has been repeatedly demonstrated across species that the hippocampus is critical for spatial learning and memory. Consequently, numerous paradigms have been created to study spatial learning in the rodent."
"Most of these tasks, such as the Morris water maze, 8-arm radial maze, and T-maze, are non-automated procedures. It was our goal to create an automated task in the rodent that is quickly learned, hippocampal-dependent, and ...
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