Figure 1.
Performance on the water maze task. Symbols indicate the mean (±SEM) escape path length to the escape platform during 5 training blocks on the (A) cue and (B) spatial discrimination tasks for young (open symbols) and aged (filled symbols) animals. (C) Acquisition of a spatial search strategy. Individual discrimination index scores for young (open symbols) and aged (filled symbols) animals. The dashed line indicates the cut-off for behavioral classification of aged-impaired (AI) and aged-unimpaired (AU) animals.