The effects of neurotoxic lesions of the perirhinal cortex combined to fornix transection on object recognition memory in the rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 181-193

  Ennaceur, Abdelkader ^a   Aggleton, John P ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fornix; Hippocampus; Object recognition; Perirhinal cortex; Rat; Spatial memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0030683616     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)02297-3     Document Type: Article

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