A comparison between the effects of medial septal lesions and entorhinal cortex lesions on performance of nonspatial working memory tasks and reversal learning

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 281-300

  Yee, B K ^a   Rawlins, J N P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Delayed matching to sample; Discrimination reversal; Entorhinal cortex; Medial septal nucleus; Rats; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; REVERSAL LEARNING; SEPTAL NUCLEI;

EID: 0031926466     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)00163-0     Document Type: Article

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