Functional role of rat prelimbic-infralimbic cortices in spatial memory: Evidence for their involvement in attention and behavioural flexibility

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 113-128

  Delatour, Benoît ^a   Gisquet Verrier, Pascale ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Delayed non matching to position task; Planning of response; Prefrontal cortex; Prospective memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0033969625     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(99)00168-0     Document Type: Article

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