Selective deficits in reversal learning after neostriatum caudolaterale lesions in pigeons: Possible behavioral equivalencies to the mammalian prefrontal system

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 125-133

  Hartmann, Beate ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associative structures; Birds; Dopamine; Go no go performance; Multiple regression analysis; Visual discriminations

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; LEARNING; NEOSTRIATUM; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); NEOSTRIATUM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVERSAL LEARNING;

EID: 0032211313     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00006-0     Document Type: Article

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