Right-hemispheric dominance of spatial memory in split-brain mice

Hippocampus

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 117-121

  Shinohara, Yoshiaki ^a,b   Hosoya, Aki ^b   Yamasaki, Nobuyuki ^c   Ahmed, Hassan ^a   Hattori, Satoko ^a,d,e   Eguchi, Megumi ^f   Yamaguchi, Shun ^e,f   Miyakawa, Tsuyoshi ^a,c,d,e   Hirase, Hajime ^b,g   Shigemoto, Ryuichi ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^f KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barnes maze; Commissure projections; Laterality; Mouse

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPLIT BRAIN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CEREBRUM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPLIT-BRAIN PROCEDURE;

EID: 84856102621     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20886     Document Type: Article

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