Neurotoxic lesions of the rat perirhinal and postrhinal cortices and their impact on biconditional visual discrimination tasks

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 274-283

  Davies, Moira ^a   Machin, Penny E ^b   Sanderson, David J ^c   Pearce, John M ^a   Aggleton, John P ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Configural learning; Parahippocampal cortices; Perirhinal cortex; Postrhinal cortex; Rat; Visual discrimination learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; SUBICULUM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33845369339     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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