Comparison of the effects of entorhinal and retrosplenial cortical lesions on habituation, reaction to spatial and non-spatial changes during object exploration in the rat

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-11

  Parron, C ^a   Save, E ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Entorhinal cortex; Object exploration; Rats; Retrosplenial cortex; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN FUNCTION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GEOMETRY; HABITUATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GYRUS CINGULI; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE NET; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 2942590468     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2004.03.004     Document Type: Article

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