Tagging items in spatial working memory: A unit-recording study in the rat medial prefrontal cortex

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 267-273

  de Saint Blanquat, Paul ^a   Hok, Vincent ^b   Alvernhe, Alice ^a   Save, Etienne ^a   Poucet, Bruno ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Executive functions; Medial prefrontal cortex; Rat; Spatial learning; Unit recording; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77649238691     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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