Fornix transection selectively impairs fast learning of conditional visuospatial discriminations

Hippocampus

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 413-422

  Kwok, Sze Chai ^a   Buckley, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Errorless learning; Hippocampus; Macaque; One trial learning; Spatial and temporal context

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN SURGERY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MACACA; MALE; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DENERVATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FORNIX, BRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDERS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 77649165947     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20643     Document Type: Article

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