Effects of lesions to the cerebellar vermis and hemispheres on timing and counting in rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 78-90

  Breukelaar, John W C ^a   Dalrymple Alford, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HEMISPHERE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033030978     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.1.78     Document Type: Article

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