Perirhinal cortex lesions impair simultaneous but not serial feature-positive discrimination learning

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 970-975

  Campolattaro, Matthew M ^a   Freeman, John H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Conditioning; Eyeblink; Eyelid; Learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 33747334571     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.4.970     Document Type: Article

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