Participation of the hippocampal theta rhythm in memory formation for an eight-arm radial maze task in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 1103, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 159-163

  Masuoka, Takayoshi ^a   Fujii, Yoko ^a   Kamei, Chiaki ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hippocampal theta rhythm; Memory acquisition; Reference memory; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HIPPOCAMPUS THETA RHYTHM; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RUNNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 33746087643     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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