The effects of electrolytic lesion to the shell subterritory of the nucleus accumbens on delayed non-matching-to-sample and four-arm baited eight-arm radial-maze tasks

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 92-103

  Gal, G ^a   Joel, D ^a   Gusak, O ^a   Feldon, J ^b   Weiner, I ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN INJURY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT; RECALL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RATS; REVERSAL LEARNING;

EID: 0031029159     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.1.92     Document Type: Article

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