Short-term odor memory: Effects of posterior transection of the lateral olfactory tract in the rat

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 903-906

  Thanos, Peter K ^a   Slotnick, Burton M ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entorhinal cortex; Hippocampus; Lateral olfactory tract; Odor memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY CORTEX; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030976383     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00003-6     Document Type: Article

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