Association rules for rat spatial learning: The importance of the hippocampus for binding item identity with item location

Hippocampus

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1162-1178

  Albasser, Mathieu M ^a,b   Dumont, Julie R ^a,b   Amin, Eman ^a,b   Holmes, Joshua D ^a,b   Horne, Murray R ^a,b   Pearce, John M ^a,b   Aggleton, John P ^a,b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Associative memory; Biconditional learning; Configural learning; Hippocampal formation; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; CELL LOSS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGING SOFTWARE; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL LEARNING; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; SUBICULUM; SUBTHALAMUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS;

ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BICONDITIONAL LEARNING; CONFIGURAL LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPAL FORMATION; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COHORT STUDIES; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HIPPOCAMPUS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RATS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84888137420     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22154     Document Type: Article

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