Simple and configural association learning in rats with bilateral quisqualic acid lesions of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 71-85

  Butt, Allen E ^a,b   Hodge, Gordon K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Alzheimer's disease; Basal forebrain; Cholinergic; Configural association theory; Memory

Indexed keywords

QUISQUALIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BASAL GANGLIA; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; GENERALIZATION, RESPONSE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUISQUALIC ACID; RATS;

EID: 0031404616     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)00062-4     Document Type: Article

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