Lesions of the perirhinal cortex do not impair integration of visual and geometric information in rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 311-320

  Horne, Murray R ^a   Iordanova, Mihaela D ^a   Albasser, Mathieu M ^a   Aggleton, John P ^a   Honey, Robert C ^a   Pearce, John M ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geometry; Object recognition memory; Perirhinal cortex; Spatial discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIRHINAL CORTEX LESION; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; COLOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME; VISION;

ANIMALS; COLOR; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RATS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77953790073     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019287     Document Type: Article

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