A study on the role of the dorsal striatum and the nucleus accumbens in allocentric and egocentric spatial memory consolidation

Learning and Memory

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 491-503

  De Leonibus, Elvira ^a   Oliverio, Alberto ^a,b   Mele, Andrea ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

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2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; HABITUATION; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AWARENESS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MICE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORIENTATION; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 25844435233     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.94805     Document Type: Article

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