Retrosplenial cortex lesion affected segregation of spatial information in place avoidance task in the rat

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-49

  Wesierska, Malgorzata ^a   Adamska, Iwona ^a   Malinowska, Monika ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Allothetic memory; Ibotenate lesions; Idiothetic memory; Relevant and irrelevant information

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROSHOCK; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 58549103892     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2008.09.005     Document Type: Article

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