The Use of the Morris Water Maze in the Study of Memory and Learning

The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map

1978 • 8,087 citations

Place navigation impaired in rats with hippocampal lesions

1982 • 6,277 citations

Cognitive maps in rats and men.

1948 • 6,217 citations

The hippocampus as a cognitive map

1979 • 5,527 citations

Selective impairment of learning and blockade of long-term potentiation by an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, AP5

1986 • 3,586 citations

Spatial localization does not require the presence of local cues

1981 • 2,665 citations

Society for Neuroscience 2007 abstracts

2007 • 2,107 citations

Hippocampus, space, and memory

1979 • 2,033 citations

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

2012 • 1,073 citations

Amelioration of cholinergic neuron atrophy and spatial memory impairment in aged rats by nerve growth factor

1987 • 1,031 citations

Contingencies of Reinforcement

2012 • 752 citations

A behavioural analysis of spatial localization following electrolytic, kainate- or colchicine-induced damage to the hippocampal formation in the rat

1983 • 590 citations

Spatial mapping: definitive disruption by hippocampal or medial frontal cortical damage in the rat

1982 • 547 citations

Spatial learning and motor deficits in aged rats

1984 • 509 citations

A comparison of the contributions of the frontal and parietal association cortex to spatial localization in rats.

1983 • 421 citations

Dissociation between components of spatial memory in rats after recovery from the effects of retrohippocampal lesions

1985 • 419 citations

Intrahippocampal Septal Grafts Ameliorate Learning Impairments in Aged Rats

1984 • 369 citations

An evaluation of spatial information processing in aged rats.

1987 • 353 citations

A comparison of the contributions of the frontal and parietal association cortex to spatial localization in rats.

1983 • 331 citations

Cholinergic receptor blockade impairs spatial localization by use of distal cues in the rat.

1982 • 301 citations

Cholinergic receptor blockade in the rat impairs locale but not taxon strategies for place navigation in a swimming pool.

1985 • 270 citations

Spatial learning and memory following fimbria-fornix transection and grafting of fetal septal neurons to the hippocampus

1987 • 256 citations

Cholinergic receptor blockade in the rat impairs locale but not taxon strategies for place navigation in a swimming pool.

1985 • 242 citations

Transplantation of embryonic ventral forebrain neurons to the neocortex of rats with lesions of nucleus basalis magnocellularis—II. Sensorimotor and learning impairments

1985 • 242 citations

Disruption of central cholinergic systems in the rat by basal forebrain lesions or atropine: Effects on feeding, sensorimotor behaviour, locomotor activity and spatial navigation

1985 • 242 citations

Ontogeny of spatial navigation behaviors in the rat: Dissociation of "proximal"- and "distal"-cue-based behaviors.

1987 • 226 citations

Cholinergic septal grafts into the hippocampal formation improve spatial learning and memory in aged rats by an atropine-sensitive mechanism

1986 • 224 citations

Ontogeny of spatial navigation behaviors in the rat: Dissociation of "proximal"- and "distal"-cue-based behaviors.

1987 • 223 citations

Place navigation by rats in a swimming pool.

1984 • 220 citations

Effects of scopolamine, pentobarbital, and amphetamine on radial arm maze performance in the rat

1980 • 201 citations

Contingencies of Reinforcement

2021 • 197 citations

Characteristics of memory impairment following lesioning of the basal forebrain and medial septal nucleus in rats

1987 • 194 citations

Dissociation of the contributions of the prefrontal cortex and dorsomedial thalamic nucleus to spatially guided behavior in the rat

1982 • 171 citations

Differential effects of cholinergic blockade on performance of rats in the water tank navigation task and in a radial water maze.

1986 • 160 citations

Visits to starts, routes, and places by rats (Rattus norvegicus) in swimming pool navigation tasks.

1986 • 149 citations

Quantitative histochemistry of brain acetylcholinesterase and learning rate in the aged rat

1986 • 136 citations

Differential effects of cholinergic blockade on performance of rats in the water tank navigation task and in a radial water maze.

1986 • 133 citations

Dopamine depletion, stimulation or blockade in the rat disrupts spatial navigation and locomotion dependent upon beacon or distal cues

1985 • 131 citations

Choline acetyltxansferase (CUT) activity Wers in right and left human temporal lobes

1981 • 116 citations

Radial maze as a tool for assessing the effect of drugs on the working memory of rats

1982 • 113 citations

Visits to starts, routes, and places by rats (Rattus norvegicus) in swimming pool navigation tasks.

1986 • 108 citations

Decortication abolishes place but not cue learning in rats

1984 • 108 citations

The effects of central catecholamine depletions on spatial learning in rats

1983 • 106 citations

Learning is improved by a soybean oil diet in rats

1986 • 82 citations

Being there: a novel demonstration of latent spatial learning in the rat

1982 • 80 citations

Lack of task specificity and absence of posttraining effects of atropine on learning.

1986 • 79 citations

Cortical noradrenaline depletion eliminates sparing of spatial learning after neonatal frontal cortex damage in the rat

1982 • 72 citations

Lack of task specificity and absence of posttraining effects of atropine on learning.

1986 • 69 citations

Radial arm maze performance of mice: Acquisition and atropine effects

1983 • 69 citations

Spatial cue utilization in chronically malnourished rats: Task‐specific learning deficits

1986 • 58 citations

Postsurgical enrichment aids adult hemidecorticate rats on a spatial navigation task

1984 • 58 citations

Grafted septal neurons form cholinergic synaptic connections in the dentate gyrus of behaviorally impaired aged rats

1986 • 57 citations

Effects of neonatal forebrain noradrenaline depletion on recovery from brain damage: Performance on a spatial navigation task as a function of age of surgery and postsurgical housing

1986 • 46 citations

Persistence of spatial memory in the morris water tank task

1984 • 43 citations

On-demand platform improves accuracy of the Morris water maze procedure

1985 • 43 citations

Stimulus sampling and the use of distal visual cues in rats with lesions of the superior colliculus

1983 • 38 citations

Neonatal hemidecortication or frontal cortex ablation produces similar behavioral sparing but opposite effects on morphogenesis of remaining cortex.

1983 • 30 citations

The effect of hypothermia on the rat's spatial memory in the water tank task

1984 • 29 citations

Effects of Dietary Fats on Learning, Pain Threshold, Thermoregulation and Motor Activity in Rats: Interaction with the Length of Feeding Period

1987 • 27 citations

Neonatal hemidecortication or frontal cortex ablation produces similar behavioral sparing but opposite effects on morphogenesis of remaining cortex.

1983 • 23 citations

AF64A Induced Cholinotoxicity: Behavioral and Biochemical Correlates

1986 • 23 citations

Effects of Alpha-Msh, Trh and Avp on Learning and Memory, Pain Threshold, and Motor Activity: Preliminary Results

1987 • 19 citations

Development of interocular equivalence in rats trained on a distal-cue navigation task.

1987 • 9 citations

Modelling amnesia and the study of memory in animals

1983 • 7 citations

Development of interocular equivalence in rats trained on a distal-cue navigation task.

1987 • 7 citations

Post-trial flicker stimulation interferes with spatial memory in the Morris water maze

1985 • 6 citations