Testing the importance of the retrosplenial navigation system: Lesion size but not strain matters: A reply to Harker and Whishaw

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 525-531

  Aggleton, John P ^a   Vann, Seralynne D ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNIQUE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 4744365663     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2004.08.003     Document Type: Letter

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