Both anteromedial and anteroventral thalamic lesions impair radial-maze learning in rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1335-1348

  Byatt, Graham ^a   Dalrymple Alford, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE PERCEPTION; THALAMUS;

EID: 0030450796     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.6.1335     Document Type: Article

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