Amygdala lesions do not impair shock-probe avoidance retention performance

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 107-116

  Lehmann, Hugo ^a   Treit, Dallas ^a   Parent, Marise B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN FUNCTION; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SHOCK; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0034054058     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.114.1.107     Document Type: Article

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