Memory and the region of the mammillary bodies

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-70

  Sziklas, Viviane ^a   Petrides, Michael ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MAMMILLARY BODY; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPATIAL MEMORY; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

EID: 0031963889     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0082(97)00064-6     Document Type: Article

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