A peculiar pattern of temporal involvement of rat perirhinal cortex in memory processing

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1161-1169

  Tassoni, Giovanna ^a   Lorenzini, Carlo Ambrogi ^a   Baldi, Elisabetta ^a   Sacchetti, Benedetto ^a   Bucherelli, Corrado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033385062     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.6.1161     Document Type: Article

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