Damage to posterior parietal cortex impairs two forms of relational learning

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JULY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Robinson, Siobhan ^a   Bucci, David J ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Attention; Conditioned inhibition; Medial temporal lobe; Parietal cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX DAMAGE; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84865088134     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00045     Document Type: Article

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