A New Rat Model of the Human Serial Reaction Time Task: Contrasting Effects of Caudate and Hippocampal Lesions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1034-1039

  Christie, Michael A ^a,c   Dalrymple Alford, John C ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c Ctr for Aging Genet/Neurodegen   (United States)

Author keywords

Caudate; Declarative memory; Hippocampus; Intracranial self stimulation; Lesion; Multiple memory systems; Nondeclarative memory; Procedural memory; Rat; Sequence learning; Serial reaction time task

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; SELF STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CUES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SELF STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0842282480     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3340-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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