Removal of cholinergic input to rat posterior parietal cortex disrupts incremental processing of conditioned stimuli

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 8038-8046

  Bucci, David J ^a,d   Holland, Peter C ^b   Gallagher, Michela ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

192 IgG saporin; Acetylcholine; Associative learning; Attention; Cholinergic basal forebrain; Immunotoxin; Posterior parietal cortex; Rats

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0032189611     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-19-08038.1998     Document Type: Article

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