Conditioned responses of monkey locus coeruleus neurons anticipate acquisition of discriminative behavior in a vigilance task

Neuroscience

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 697-715

  Aston Jones, G ^a   Rajkowski, J ^a   Kubiak, P ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Learning; Locus coeruleus; Norepinephrine; Primate; Reversal

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL DAMAGE; COGNITION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; LOCUS CERULEUS; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TARGET CELL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LOCUS COERULEUS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; REWARD;

EID: 0030860266     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(97)00060-2     Document Type: Article

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