Hippocampectomized rats can use a constellation of landmarks to recognize a place

Brain Research

Volumn 876, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 225-237

  Alyan, Sofyan H ^a   Jander, Rudolf ^b   Best, Phillip J ^c  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive mapping; Hippocampectomized rat; Hippocampus; Navigation; Place learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CUES; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034623099     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)02585-3     Document Type: Article

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