Cerebellar contribution to spatial event processing: Morris water maze and T-maze

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1882-1896

  Petrosini, Laura ^a,c   Molinari, Marco ^b,c   Dell'Anna, Maria E ^b,d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hemicerebellectomy; Procedural learning; Rat; Spatial learning; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBELLECTOMY; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 0029762298     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1996.tb01332.x     Document Type: Article

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