Effects of selective granular retrosplenial cortex lesions on spatial working memory in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 566-575

  Pothuizen, Helen H J ^a   Davies, Moira ^a   Aggleton, John P ^a   Vann, Seralynne D ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cingulate cortex; Radial arm maze; Spatial memory; T maze; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; GRANULAR RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX LESION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DARK ADAPTATION; GYRUS CINGULI; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; N-METHYLASPARTATE; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; RATS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); ROTATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77249095327     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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