Neurotoxic lesion of anteromedial/posterior parietal cortex disrupts spatial maze memory in blind rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 465-470

  Pinto Hamuy, Teresa ^a   Montero, Vicente M ^b   Torrealba, Fernando ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Blindness; Cross modal plasticity; Extrastriate visual cortex; Hippocampus; Posterior parietal cortex; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLINDNESS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PROBLEM SOLVING; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 3242684167     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.01.003     Document Type: Article

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