Performance of food seeking behavior in rats of different age

Abstract

The ability of juvenile rats to seek food behavior in radial maze with asymmetrical rein-forcement
following injection of pharmacological drugs selectively affecting the hippocampal or striatal
activity was investigated. It has been shown that the ability of animals to form selective attention
on significant sensory signals and the animal efficiency to wait the delayed discrete reinforcement
appeared in rats on the different phases of age where hippo-campus and striatum are in competition
each to another.