Conditional discrimination learning and negative patterning in rats with neonatal hippocampal lesion induced by ionizing radiation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-44

  Moreira, Rita de Cássia Margarido ^a,b   Bueno, José Lino Oliveira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RIBEIRÃO PRETO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Configural learning; Dentate gyrus; Hippocampus; Ionizing radiation; Lesion; Occasion setting

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; IONIZING RADIATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DENTATE GYRUS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSTINCT; MALE; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SERIAL LEARNING; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0037421097     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00227-9     Document Type: Article

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