Effects of unilateral removal of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons on cued target detection in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-71

  Bushnell, Philip J ^a   Chiba, Andrea A ^b   Oshiro, Wendy M ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Basal forebrain cholinergic system; Orienting; Visuospatial neglect

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FOREBRAIN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; VISUAL FIELD;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOTOXINS; MALE; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031887137     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)00082-X     Document Type: Article

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