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DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY
Volume 51, Issue 8, Pages 672-678Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20402
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object recognition; development; hippocampus; perirhinal cortex
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- Child Neurology Foundation/Winokur Family Foundation [NS027544, NS02197, NS057420]
- UCLA Brain Injury Research Center
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Detection of novelty is at? essential component of recognition memory, which develops throughout cerebral maturation. To better understand the developmental aspects of this memory system, the novel object recognition task (NOR) was used with the immature rat and ontogenically profiled. It was hypothesized that object recognition would vary across development and be inferior to adult performance. The NOR design was made age-appropriate by downsizing the testing objects and arena. Weanling (P20-23), juvenile (P29-40), and adult (P50+) rats were tested after 0.25, 1, 24, and 48 hr delays. Weanlings exhibited novel object recognition at 0.25 and I hr, while older animals showed a preference for the novel object out to 24 hr. These findings are consistent with previous research performed in humans and monkeys, as well as to studies using the NOR after medial temporal lobe damage in adult rats. (C) 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Dev Psychobiol 51: 672-678, 2009.
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