Learning associations between places and visual cues without learning to navigate: Neither fornix nor entorhinal cortex is required

Hippocampus

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 445-460

  Gaffan, E A ^a   Bannerman, D M ^b   Healey, A N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allocentric; Egocentric; Incidental learning; Rats; Retrohippocampal region; Subiculum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FACILITATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAT; REWARD; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUBICULUM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; DENERVATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FORNIX (BRAIN); HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0038084246     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.10066     Document Type: Article

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