Interaction of perirhinal cortex with the fornix-fimbria: Memory for objects and 'object-in-place' memory

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 5864-5869

  Gaffan, David ^a   Parker, Amanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

amnesia; episodic memory; fornix; hippocampus; perirhinal cortex; primates; spatial memory; visual object memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029835021     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-18-05864.1996     Document Type: Article

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