Fornix transection impairs exploration but not locomotion in ambulatory macaque monkeys

Hippocampus

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 655-663

  Kwok, Sze Chai ^a   Buckley, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Habituation; Hippocampus; Memory; Nonhuman primate; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HABITUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MACACA; MALE; MEMORY; MOBILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FORNIX (BRAIN); MACACA; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS;

EID: 33750481877     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20195     Document Type: Article

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