Impaired object recognition with increasing levels of feature ambiguity in rats with perirhinal cortex lesions

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 148, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 79-91

  Norman, G ^a   Eacott, M J ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Feature; Memory; Object; Perirhinal; Rat

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION;

EID: 0346995463     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00176-1     Document Type: Article

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