Visuospatial attention in the rat and posterior parietal cortex lesions

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 69-77

  Rosner, Amy L ^a   Mittleman, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Movement time; Posterior parietal cortex; Rat; Reaction time; Temporal association cortex; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REACTION TIME; VISION;

EID: 0030247409     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-4328(95)00263-4     Document Type: Article

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