The effect of quisqualic acid-induced lesions of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis on latent inhibition

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 313-317

  Rochford, Joseph ^a   Sen, Ananda P ^a   Rousse, Isabelle ^a   Welner, Sharon A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conditioned emotional response; Learning; Memory; Rat; Stimulus filtering; Stimulus processing

Indexed keywords

QUISQUALIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; LATENT INHIBITION; LEARNING; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; QUISQUALIC ACID; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0029907808     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(96)00191-8     Document Type: Article

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