Medial prefrontal cortex lesions cause deficits in a variable-goal location task but not in object exploration

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 465-474

  Gemmell, Colin ^a   O'Mara, Shane M ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GOALS; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0032814482     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.3.465     Document Type: Article

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