The hippocampus is not necessary for a place response but may be necessary for pliancy

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 914-924

  Day, Lainy Baird ^a,b   Schallert, Timothy ^a   Weisend, Michael ^c   Sutherland, Robert J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c James Cook University ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; RAT; TRAINING;

EID: 0343048344     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.5.914     Document Type: Article

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