Systematic comparison of the effects of hippocampal and fornix-fimbria lesions on acquisition of three configural discriminations

Hippocampus

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 371-388

  McDonald, Robert J ^a   Murphy, Robin A ^a   Guarraci, Fay A ^a   Gortler, Judy R ^a   White, Norman M ^a   Baker, A G ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Configural learning; Fornix fimbria; Lesions

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; KAINIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DENERVATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 0030848138     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1997)7:4<371::AID-HIPO3>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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