Hippocampectomized rats are impaired in homing by path integration

Hippocampus

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 553-561

  Maaswinkel, Hans ^a   Jarrard, Leonard E ^b   Whishaw, Ian Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dead reckoning; Foraging; Hippocampus; Homing; Ibotenic acid lesion; Path integration; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0032736385     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1999)9:5<553::AID-HIPO9>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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