Neurotoxic lesions of the perirhinal cortex do not mimic the behavioural effects of fornix transection in the rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 80, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 9-25

  Ennaceur, Abdelkader ^a   Neave, Nick ^b   Aggleton, John P ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

configural association; entorhinal cortex; hippocampus; learning; memory; object recognition; rat; spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 0030272766     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-4328(96)00006-X     Document Type: Article

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