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Water Can Induce Better Spatial Memory Performance Than Food, Japanese Psycho.
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Abstract: Two experiments were carried out to test the differential effects of
hunger and thirst on memory performance. In Experiment 1, two groups of rats
were exposed to an original radial-maze task and then to a 30-min
retention-memory task. The food-deprived group completed the original task more
quickly than the water-deprived group, but the thirsty group mastered the memory
task more quickly than the hungry group. In Experiment 2, deprivation conditions
were changed from the original to the memory task. (...) Thirst proved to
constitute a more favorable condition for retention-memory learning. The
applicability of several theories is discussed.
Source: Water Can Induce Better Spatial Memory Performance Than Food In Radial
Maze Learning By Rats[
http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/ExpandTOC/ingenta;jsessionid=fpicr955gtrc?issue=infobike://bpl/jpr/2004/00000046/00000001&index=7
], Komaki J., DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5884.2004.00237.x, Japanese Psychological
Research, Mar. 2004
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