Long latency event-related potentials in rats: Response of amygdala, nucleus accumbens, dorsal hippocampus and frontal cortex to changes in reward characteristics of conditioned stimuli

Brain Research

Volumn 780, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 138-142

  Ehlers, Cindy L ^a   Somes, Christine ^a   Lopez, Alfred L ^a   Robledo, Patricia ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Attention; Event related potential; Hippocampus; N1; Neocortex; Nucleus accumbens; P2; Reward

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; REWARD;

EID: 0032484501     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01294-8     Document Type: Article

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