Spontaneous object recognition and object location memory in rats: The effects of lesions in the cingulate cortices, the medial prefrontal cortex, the cingulum bundle and the fornix

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 509-519

  Ennaceur, Abdelkader ^a   Neave, Nick ^a   Aggleton, John P ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cingulate cortex; Cingulum bundle; Fornix; Memory; Object location; Object recognition; Prefrontal cortex; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; GYRUS CINGULI; MALE; MEMORY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS;

EID: 0030977716     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005603     Document Type: Article

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