The impact of fornix lesions in rats on spatial learning tasks sensitive to anterior thalamic and hippocampal damage

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 278, Issue , 2015, Pages 360-374

  Dumont, Julie R ^a   Amin, Eman ^a   Wright, Nicholas F ^a   Dillingham, Christopher M ^a   Aggleton, John P ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biconditional learning; Cognitive map; Configural learning; Hippocampus; Incidental learning; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FORNIX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURY; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPLICATION; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE MODEL; INJURIES; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDERS; NERVE TRACT; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THALAMUS; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; CATHETER ABLATION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FORNIX, BRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; SPATIAL LEARNING; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84910071854     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.10.016     Document Type: Article

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