Perirhinal Cortex and Anterior Thalamic Lesions: Comparative Effects on Learning and Memory

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1326-1341

  Moran, James P ^a   Dalrymple Alford, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HABITUATION; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL MEMORY; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0345734337     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.6.1326     Document Type: Article

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