Dissociable effects of AMPA-induced lesions of the vertical limb diagonal band of Broca on performance of the 5-choice serial reaction time task and on acquisition of a conditional visual discrimination

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 31-44

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

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

acetylcholine; attention; cingulate cortex; vertical diagonal band of Broca

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; EXCITOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REACTION TIME; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0030477099     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)81106-0     Document Type: Article

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