Spatial learning based on boundaries in rats is hippocampus-dependent and prone to overshadowing

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 623-632

  Horne, Murray R ^a   Iordanova, Mihaela D ^a   Pearce, John M ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundaries; Hippocampus; Landmarks; Overshadowing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIAL MEMORY; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; SUBICULUM; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CUES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; RATS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77958142644     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020824     Document Type: Article

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