The contribution of the associative parietal cortex and hippocampus to spatial processing in rodents

Psychobiology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 153-161

  Save, Etienne ^a,c   Poucet, Bruno ^a   Foreman, Nigel ^b   Thinus Blanc, Catherine ^a  

^a Center for Research in Cognitive Neurosciences   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; RODENT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 0031814284     PISSN: 08896313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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