Dorsal hippocampal lesions boost performance in the rat sequential reaction time task

Hippocampus

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1202-1214

  Eckart, M T ^a   Huelse Matia, M C ^a   Schwarting, R K W ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dorsal hippocampus; Exitotoxic lesions; Procedural learning; Sequential learning; SRTT

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL HIPPOCAMPAL LESION; FOOD INTAKE; HABITUATION; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SERIAL REACTION TIME TASK; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IBOTENIC ACID; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 84859729163     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20965     Document Type: Article

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