Hippocampal lesions enhance configural learning by reducing proactive interference

Hippocampus

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 138-146

  Han, Jung Soo ^a   Gallagher, Michela ^a   Holland, Peter ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Neurotoxic lesions; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRAINING; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEUROTOXINS; RATS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031896161     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1998)8:2<138::AID-HIPO6>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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