Light deprivation-related changes of strategy selection in the radial arm maze

Title:

Light deprivation-related changes of strategy selection in the radial arm maze

Creator:

Salami, Mahmoud

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:82f683d1-e151-44d5-9c37-1122dba6f104
uuid:82f683d1-e151-44d5-9c37-1122dba6f104
issn:0862-8408

Subject:

Fyziologie člověka a srovnávací fyziologie, fyziologie člověka, učení, paměť, pohlavní rozdíly, human physiology, learning, memory, sex differences, radiální bludiště, smyslové zkušenosti, výběr strategie, radial maze, sensory experience, strategy selection, 14, and 612

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article, články, model:article, and TEXT

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Description:

During the early postnatal age environmental signals underlie the development of sensory systems. The visual system is considered as an appropriate system to evaluate role of sensory experience in postnatal development of sensory systems. This study was made to assess the effect of visual deprivation on strategy of arm selection in navigation of radial arm maze. Six-week-old light- (LR, control) and dark-reared (DR) rats were trained for correct choices and adjacent arms tasks. Our results showed that both the LR and DR animals equally selected correct arms. In the adjacent arms task, however, the control group significantly outperformed the DR animals. While the LR males and females displayed some differences in performing the tasks, no sex dependency was found in the performance of the DR group. These findings indicate that the lack of visual experience is likely to influence the strategy selection as well as sex differences. Thus the difference in the performance of LR and DR animals seems to be due to the male rather than female behavior., M. Salami., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Source:

Physiological research | 2007 Volume:56 | Number:1

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