title: Spatial Memory and Learning in Transgenic Mice: Fact or Artifact?
abstract: Spatial learning of transgenic mice is often assessed in the Morris watermaze, where mice must use distant cues to locate a submerged platform. Such learning is confounded by species-specific noncognitive swimming strategies. Factor analysis permits cognitive and noncognitive strategies to be disentangled and their association with electrophysiological phenomena to be investigated.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Neuroanatomy and Behavior, Institute of Anatomy, University of Zürich, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: David P.
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Wolfer
authors.forename: Marijana
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stagljar-Bozicevic
authors.forename: Mick L.
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Errington
authors.forename: Hans-Peter
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Lipp