Lesions of the prelimbic-infralimbic cortices in rats do not disrupt response selection processes but induce delay-dependent deficits: Evidence for a role in working memory?

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 941-955

  Delatour, Benoît ^a,b   Gisquet Verrier, Pascale ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; HISTOLOGY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERFORMANCE; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0033502186     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.5.941     Document Type: Article

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