The cerebral cortex of the rat and visual attentional function: Dissociable effects of mediofrontal, cingulate, anterior dorsolateral, and parietal cortex lesions on a five-choice serial reaction time task

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 470-481

  Muir, Janice L ^a,b   Everitt, Barry J ^a   Robbins, Trevor W ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITOTOXIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CINGULATE GYRUS; HISTOLOGY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; REACTION TIME; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; VISION;

EID: 0029898666     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/6.3.470     Document Type: Article

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