Fornix transection impairs learning of randomly changing object discriminations

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 47, 2007, Pages 12868-12873

  Wilson, Charles R E ^a   Charles, David P ^a   Buckley, Mark J ^a   Gaffan, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fornix; Hippocampus; Macaque; Memory; Monkey; Spatial

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FORNIX, BRAIN; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDERS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 36349011985     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3536-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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