Virtual human analogs to rodent spatial pattern separation and completion memory tasks

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 237-244

  Paleja, Meera ^a   Girard, Todd A ^a   Christensen, Bruce K ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Memory; Navigation; Pattern completion; Pattern separation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959691221     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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