Psicologia e Saúde em Debate, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 10(1), P. 359 - 383

Published: April 3, 2024

The term memory has been described since the time of Platão, and during all these years it undergone modifications improvements. Today is based on processed stored information, divided mainly into short-term memories (STM) long-term (LTM). STM associated with brain structures such as prefrontal cortex defined working or operational memories. While LTM, by hippocampus classified declarative (or explicit) non-declarative implicit) Past events retained experiences are examples Motor skills To study both learning memories, numerous tests have created. Most used make use labyrinths. Among main ones aquatic non-aquatic. Open mazes multiple routes, Barnes Maze – LB; Morris Water LAM an example aquatics. They advantage not leaving clues between one test another, but they work aversive stimuli to animals, which can generate some stress. For non-aquatics, we Object Recognition Test, “Y” maze Lashley III maze. Depending cleaning each test, may interfere data collected in sequence. However, using situations inherent characteristics animal. Each its advantages disadvantages applicability obtaining for scientific research.

Language: Английский