Impaired spatial performance in rats with retrosplenial lesions: Importance of the spatial problem and the rat strain in identifying lesion effects in a swimming pool

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1155-1164

  Troy Harker, K ^a   Whishaw, Ian Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cingulum bundle; Dark Agouti rat; Learning and memory; Long Evans rat; Matching to place learning; Morris water task; Place learning; Posterior cingulate; Retrosplenial cortex; Spatial navigation; Strain differences

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SWIMMING POOL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0036470546     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-03-01155.2002     Document Type: Article

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