Intact Performance on Feature-Ambiguous Discriminations in Rats with Lesions of the Perirhinal Cortex

Neuron

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 132-140

  Clark, Robert E ^a,b   Reinagel, Pamela ^e   Broadbent, Nicola J ^b   Flister, Erik D ^e   Squire, Larry R ^a,b,c,d  

^a VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NEUROBIOLOGY SECTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEARNING DISORDER; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 79953797393     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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