Combined lesions of perirhinal and entorhinal cortex impair rats' performance in two versions of the spatially guided radial-arm maze

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-31

  Otto, Tim ^a   Wolf, David ^a   Walsh, Thomas J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031194312     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1997.3778     Document Type: Article

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