Characteristics of basolateral amygdala neuronal firing on a spatial memory task involving differential reward

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 554-570

  Pratt, Wayne E ^b   Mizumori, Sheri J Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CACAO; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NEURAL INHIBITION; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REWARD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031803953     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.112.3.554     Document Type: Article

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