The effects of hippocampal lesions on response, direction, and place learning in rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 946-952

  Stringer, Krista G ^a   Martin, Gerard M ^a   Skinner, Darlene M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Direction learning; Hippocampus; Place learning; Response learning; Start points

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAT; RAT STRAIN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; T MAZE TEST;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN DISEASES; CUES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; N-METHYLASPARTATE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 25444474157     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.4.946     Document Type: Article

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