Hippocampus

Study by Williams et al. (1990)

• Methods:

  • they determined how well animals performed on this task by analyzing number of errors made until all food pellets were obtained
  • 2 types of errors: 1) remembering not to go into unbaited arms, and 2) remembering what arms were visited on a given day (1 test per day for 18 days)

• Results:

  • males and masculinized females showed faster acquisition of maze task than did females or feminized males
  • however, after acquisition, no sex differences in performance were observed

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