Suppression to Visual, Auditory, and Gustatory Stimuli Habituates Normally in Rats With Excitotoxic Lesions of the Perirhinal Cortex

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1238-1250

  Robinson, Jasper ^a   Sanderson, David J ^b   Aggleton, John P ^c   Jenkins, Trisha A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

familiarity; habituation; novelty; perirhinal cortex; recognition memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITOTOXICITY; GUSTATORY STIMULATION; HABITUATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TASTE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 72249118476     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017444     Document Type: Article

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