Parietal lesions produce illusory conjunction errors in rats

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY 2012, 2012, Pages 1-5

  Kesner, Raymond P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Illusory conjunctions; Parietal cortex; Rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ILLUSION; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84863618008     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00022     Document Type: Article

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