A video demonstration of preserved piloting by scent tracking but impaired dead reckoning after fimbria-fornix lesions in the rat

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 26, 2009, Pages

  Whishaw, Ian Q ^a   Gorny, Boguslaw P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience; Dead reckoning; Fimbria fornix; Hippocampus; Issue 26; Neuroscience; Odor tracking; Path integration; Piloting; Rat; Spatial learning; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055120375     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/1193     Document Type: Article

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