Functionally dissociating aspects of event memory: The effects of combined perirhinal and postrhinal cortex lesions on object and place memory in the rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 495-502

  Bussey, Timothy J ^a,b   Muir, Janice L ^a   Aggleton, John P ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; Event memory; Object recognition; Perirhinal cortex; Postrhinal cortex; Rat; Spatial memory; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION;

EID: 0032906794     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-01-00495.1999     Document Type: Article

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