Septal lesions impair rats' Morris test performance but facilitate left-right response differentiation

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 895-900

  Noonan, Michael ^a   Penque, Michelle ^a   Axelrod, Seymour ^b  

^a CANISIUS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Allocentric; Egocentric; Left right learning; Navigation; Rat; Septal lesions; Spatial learning; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0030249711     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(96)00101-1     Document Type: Article

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