Corticohippocampal Contributions to Spatial and Contextual Learning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3826-3836

  Burwell, Rebecca D ^a   Saddoris, Michael P ^a,b   Bucci, David J ^a,c   Wiig, Kjesten A ^a,d  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d Sention Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Entorhinal; Fear conditioning; Hippocampal; Parahippocampal; Passive avoidance; Perirhinal; Postrhinal; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN INJURY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 1942425572     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0410-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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