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. 2023 Sep 21;17:1230082. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1230082

Table 1.

Behavioral tests across cognitive domains and corresponding structural correlates.

Cognitive domain Behavioral test Main structural correlates Example references
Semantic memory Object recognition, (non)matching-to sample, reversal learning, contextual fear conditioning Prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, perirhinal cortex, visual cortex Ennaceur and Delacour (1988), Curzon et al. (2009), Leger et al. (2013), and Goltstein et al. (2021)
Episodic-like memory Delayed-(non)matching-to-sample task, What-Where-When (Which) task, spatial navigation Hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, amygdala Barnes (1979), Morris (1981, 2001), Robinson and Crawley (1993), Vorhees and Williams (2006), DeVito and Eichenbaum (2010), and Davis et al. (2013)
Associative learning/memory Passive avoidance, active avoidance, fear conditioning, classical and operant conditioning Hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, frontal motor areas, striatum Van der Poel (1967), Schleyer et al. (2018), and Van Gurp et al. (2020)
Procedural memory Motor-skill-learning, operant conditioning, procedural T-maze task Cerebellum, striatum Dere et al. (2008), Cayzac et al. (2011), and Willis et al. (2017)
Executive function Set-shifting tasks, reversal learning, Go/No-go task, delayed alternation, prepulse inhibition, five-choice serial reaction time task Prefrontal cortex, basal ganglia, amygdala Kesner and Churchwell (2011), Bizon et al. (2012), Endo et al. (2012), Mar et al. (2013), Shepard et al. (2017), and Sable et al. (2021)