Marked retrograde and anterograde amnesia of a visual discrimination task in rats with selective lesions of the perirhinal cortex

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 244-252

  Myhrer, Trond ^a   Wangen, Katrine ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 0029876281     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1996.0029     Document Type: Article

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