Lesions of the dorsal tegmental nuclei disrupt control of navigation by distal landmarks in cued, directional, and place variants of the morris water task

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 566-581

  Clark, Benjamin J ^a   Rice, James P ^b   Akers, Katherine G ^b   Candelaria Cook, Felicha T ^b   Taube, Jeffrey S ^a   Hamilton, Derek A ^c  

^a Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterodorsal thalamus; Cognitive mapping; Head direction cells; Hippocampus; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MORRIS WATER TASK; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TEGMENTUM;

EID: 84885424826     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033087     Document Type: Article

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