Cognitive functions of the basal forebrain cholinergic system in monkeys: Memory or attention?

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 75, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 13-25

  Voytko, Mary Lou ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Basal forebrain; Cholinergic system; Learning; Memory; Monkey; Neurotoxic lesion

Indexed keywords

SCOPOLAMINE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BRAIN INJURY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0029887578     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-4328(95)00143-3     Document Type: Review

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