Cerebellar contribution to spatial event processing: Right/left discrimination abilities in rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1986-1992

  Molinari, Marco ^a,b,c   Grammaldo, Liliana G ^b   Petrosini, Laura ^a,c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active avoidance; Associative learning; Cognition; Hemicerebellectomy; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0030882807     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1997.tb00766.x     Document Type: Article

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