The neuroscience of spatial navigation: Focus on behavior yields advances

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 215-231

  Cain, Donald Peter ^a   Saucier, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavior; Hippocampus; Long term potentiation; LTP; NMDA; Spatial learning; Spatial navigation; Water maze

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0029907499     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVNEURO.1996.7.3.215     Document Type: Review

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