Prefrontal cortex: Role in acquisition of overlapping associations and transitive inference

Learning and Memory

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 161-167

  DeVito, Loren M ^a   Lykken, Christine ^a   Kanter, Benjamin R ^a   Eichenbaum, Howard ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSITIVE INFERENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ODORS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77649175947     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.1685710     Document Type: Article

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