Lesions of the Rat Perirhinal Cortex Spare the Acquisition of a Complex Configural Visual Discrimination Yet Impair Object Recognition

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-68

  Aggleton, John P ^a   Albasser, Mathieu M ^a   Aggleton, Duncan J ^a   Poirier, Guillaume L ^a   Pearce, John M ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

configural learning; perirhinal cortex; recognition memory; spatial learning; structural learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERIRHINAL CORTEX LESION; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWIMMING;

EID: 77249178279     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018320     Document Type: Article

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