Quantitative reanalysis of lesion effects on rate of forgetting in macaques

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 223-227

  White, K Geoffrey ^a   Harper, David N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Brain lesion; Forgetting function; Macaque; Memory; Rate of forgetting

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; LEARNING; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030068575     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-4328(95)00172-7     Document Type: Article

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