Effects of lesions of the associative parietal cortex on the acquisition and use of spatial memory in egocentric and allocentric navigation tasks in the rat

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 74-85

  Save, Etienne ^a,b   Moghaddam, Mojdeh ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DARK ADAPTATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ESCAPE REACTION; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; RATS; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0030060674     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.1.74     Document Type: Article

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