Spatial reversal learning deficit after medial cortex lesion in turtles

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 341, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 197-200

  Lopez J C ^a   Gomez Y ^a   Vargas, J P ^a,b   Salas, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cue learning; Hippocampus; Medial cortex; Reptiles; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; LEARNING DISORDER; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL SUMMATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; TURTLE; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0037426555     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00186-1     Document Type: Article

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