Severe scene learning impairment, but intact recognition memory, after cholinergic depletion of inferotemporal cortex followed by fornix transection

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 282-293

  Browning, Philip G F ^a   Gaffan, David ^a   Croxson, Paula L ^a   Baxter, Mark G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Hippocampus; Macaque; Monkey; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FORNIX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPISODIC MEMORY; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RHESUS MONKEY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DENERVATION; FORNIX, BRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDERS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; NEUROTOXINS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEACHING; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 74249111157     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp097     Document Type: Article

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