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ea0010p50 | Neuroendocrinology and behaviour | SFE2005

A preliminary investigation into the effects of gender on cognitive performance in the rat using the novel object recognition task

Sutcliffe J , Marshall K , Neill J

Novel object discrimination is a widely used ethologically relevant working memory task. However, there is little information regarding gender differences in performance of this test. The aim of this study was to compare the performance of male and female rats in this task following increasing intertrial intervals.Subjects were 24 female and 24 male adult hooded-Lister rats (250±10 g) group housed under standard laboratory conditions. Testing consis...