Neurotoxic lesions of the dorsomedial thalamus impair the acquisition but not the performance of delayed matching to place by rats: A deficit in shifting response rules

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 10045-10052

  Hunt, Peter R ^a   Aggleton, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Matching to place; Medial dorsal thalamus; Prefrontal cortex; Response rules; Spatial memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0032400820     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-23-10045.1998     Document Type: Article

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