Prefrontal cortex and caudate nucleus in conditional associative learning: Dissociated effects of selective brain lesion in rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 89-101

  Winocur, Gordon ^a,b,c   Eskes, Gail ^d  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0031883791     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.112.1.89     Document Type: Article

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