Septal lesions impair the acquisition of a cued place navigation task: Attentional or memory deficit?

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 106-125

  Brandner, C ^a   Schenk, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031903908     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1997.3814     Document Type: Article

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