Role of the neocortex in the water maze task in the rat: A detailed behavioral and Golgi-Cox analysis

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 81-94

  Hoh, Timothy E ^a   Kolb, Bryan ^b   Eppel, Ayelet ^a   Vanderwolf, C H ^a   Cain, Donald P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain lesion; Golgi method; Neocortex; Parietal cortex; Prefrontal cortex; Pretraining; Rat; Spatial learning; Visual cortex; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; GOLGI STAIN; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEOCORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ESCAPE REACTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; NEOCORTEX; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0037421123     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00237-1     Document Type: Article

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