Lesions of the hippocampus or fornix do not interfere with the relative validity effect on a discrete stimulus or the context

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-66

  Murphy, Robin A ^a   McDonald, Robert J ^b   Baker, A G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fornix; Hippocampus; Instrumental conditioning; Rats; Relative validity effect; Selective associations

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD;

ANIMALS; COLCHICINE; DENTATE GYRUS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; REWARD; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031952673     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)00125-3     Document Type: Article

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