Restricted lesions to ventral prefrontal subareas block reversal learning but not visual discrimination learning in rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 371-379

  Li, Liang ^a,b   Shao, Jiao ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive flexibility; Microknife; Prefrontal cortex; Reversal learning; Rotating T maze; Selective lesions

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0031769013     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(98)00216-9     Document Type: Article

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