The Role of Perirhinal Cortex in Visual Discrimination Learning for Visual Secondary Reinforcement in Rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1318-1325

  Eacott, M J ^a   Norman, G ^a   Gaffan, E A ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0346995343     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.6.1318     Document Type: Article

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