Preserved learning about allocentric cues but impaired flexible memory expression in rats with hippocampal lesions

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 506-514

  Ramos, Juan M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Behavioral flexibility; Hippocampus; Incidental processing; Radial maze; Retention; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CUES; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77952545036     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2010.01.008     Document Type: Article

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