Hippocampal lesions impair performance on a conditional delayed matching and non-matching to position task in the rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 240-250

  Sloan, Hazel L ^a   Döbrössy, Màtè ^a   Dunnett, Stephen B ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity; Cognition; Hippocampus; Operant behaviour; Rat; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITOTOXICITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745423028     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.03.042     Document Type: Article

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