Prelimbic cortex specific lesions disrupt delayed-variable response tasks in the rat

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1282-1298

  Delatour, Benoît ^a   Gisquet Verrier, Pascale ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030462632     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.6.1282     Document Type: Article

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