Triple dissociation of anterior cingulate, posterior cingulate, and medial frontal cortices on visual discrimination tasks using a touchscreen testing procedure for the rat

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 920-936

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

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONDITIONING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTIONS; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MOTIVATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; REACTION TIME; REVERSAL LEARNING;

EID: 0030828693     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.5.920     Document Type: Article

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