The hippocampus is required for visually cued contextual response selection, but not for visual discrimination of contexts

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEPTEMBER, 2012, Pages

  Kim, Sehee ^a   Lee, Jihyun ^a   Lee, Inah ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Choice Behavior; Context; Decision Making; Episodic memory; Hippocampus; Navigation; Response selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84866636349     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2012.00066     Document Type: Article

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