Essential role of the perirhinal cortex in complex tactual discrimination tasks in rats

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2068-2080

  Ramos, Juan M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Discrimination learning; Medial temporal lobe; Perirhinal cortex; Radial maze; Rat

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONHUMAN; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTUAL DISCRIMINATION TASK; TISSUE INJURY; ANIMAL; DARKNESS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOUCH; TOXICITY; WISTAR RAT;

N METHYLASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMALS; DARKNESS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSAL LEARNING; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84898753767     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht054     Document Type: Article

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