Fornix lesions can facilitate acquisition of the transverse patterning task: A challenge for 'configural' theories of hippocampal function

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1622-1631

  Bussey, Timothy J ^a   Clea Warburton, E ^a   Aggleton, John P ^a   Muir, Janice L ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Configural; Discrimination; Fornix; Hippocampus; Learning; Memory; Rat; Spatial learning; Transverse patterning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN INJURY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 17344362309     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-04-01622.1998     Document Type: Article

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