Involvement of the hippocampus and associative parietal cortex in the use of proximal and distal landmarks for navigation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 195-206

  Save, Etienne ^a   Poucet, Bruno ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Associative parietal cortex; Hippocampus; Landmark processing; Rat; Spatial cognition; Spatial navigation; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PARIETAL LOBE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0034087548     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(99)00173-4     Document Type: Article

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