A role for the head-direction system in geometric learning

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 201-206

  Vann, Seralynne D ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lateral mammillary nucleus; Medial diencephalon; Rat; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; HEAD DIRECTION SYSTEM; LEARNING; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CUES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HEAD; LEARNING; MALE; MAMILLARY BODIES; MAZE LEARNING; ORIENTATION; RATS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960229940     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.05.033     Document Type: Article

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