Generalization in place learning across geometrically different environments is impaired by hippocampal lesions in rats

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-8

  Tommasi, Luca ^a,b   Save, Etienne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Generalization; Geometry; Hippocampus; Rat; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENVIRONMENT; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 20144376741     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2005.03.003     Document Type: Article

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