Medial prefrontal and neostriatal lesions disrupt performance in an operant delayed alternation task in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 106, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 13-28

  Dunnett, Stephen B ^a   Nathwani, Falguni ^a   Brasted, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Delayed alternation; Frontostriatal systems; Neostriatum; Operant tests; Prefrontal cortex; Rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MEMORY; NEOSTRIATUM; NONHUMAN; PERSEVERATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MALE; MEMORY; NEOSTRIATUM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS;

EID: 0032705528     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(99)00076-5     Document Type: Article

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