Effects of fimbria-fornix, hippocampus, and amygdala lesions on discrimination between proximal locations

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 770-784

  Chai, Sin Chee ^a,b   White, Norman M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIMBRIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN DISEASES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FORNIX (BRAIN); HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAZE LEARNING; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEUROTOXINS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 3242785536     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.4.770     Document Type: Article

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