Covert orienting of attention in the rat and the role of striatal dopamine

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3082-3088

  Ward, Nick M ^a   Brown, Verity J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attention; covert orienting; dopamine; Parkinson's disease; rat; striatum

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; OXIDOPAMINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CORPUS STRIATUM; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0029985962     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-09-03082.1996     Document Type: Article

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