The entorhinal cortex, but not the dorsal hippocampus, is necessary for single-cue latent learning

Hippocampus

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1061-1071

  Stouffer, Eric M ^a  

^a BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned cue preference; Contextual learning; Irrelevant incentive learning; Latent cue preference; Salt; Water

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; NEUROTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT CUE PREFERENCE; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; WATER DEPRIVATION;

ANIMALS; CUES; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77956805416     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20704     Document Type: Article

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