Place learning with and without observation from the goal position: Effects of prefrontal cortical ablations in the rat

Homeostasis in Health and Disease

Volumn 42, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 38-51

  Mogensen, Jesper ^a   Døngart, Robin ^a   Wegener, Jon ^a   Malá, Hana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Cognitive map; Functional recovery; Observational learning; Place learning; Prefrontal cortex; Rat; Scopolamine; Water maze

Indexed keywords

SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33845711776     PISSN: 09607560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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