Dissociation between memory retention across a delay and pattern separation following medial prefrontal cortex lesions in the touchscreen TUNL task

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 101, Issue , 2013, Pages 120-126

  McAllister, Kathryn A L ^a   Saksida, Lisa M ^a,b   Bussey, Timothy J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nonmatch to position; Pattern separation; Prefrontal cortex; Touchscreen; TUNL; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DISSOCIATION; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84874508270     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.01.010     Document Type: Article

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