Enhanced context-dependency of object recognition in rats with hippocampal lesions

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 156-162

  O'Brien, Norman ^a   Lehmann, Hugo ^b   Lecluse, Valerie ^a   Mumby, Dave G ^a  

^a and Applied Physiology   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contextual memory; Exploration; Incidental learning; Nonspatial memory; Novelty preference; Open field; Relational representations

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 33646474864     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.02.008     Document Type: Article

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