Visual attention task performance in Wistar and Lister Hooded rats: Response inhibition deficits after medial prefrontal cortex lesions

Neuroscience

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-57

  Broersen, L M ^a   Uylings, H B M ^a  

^a Amsterdam University Medical Center   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Activity; Attention; Food hoarding; Prefrontal cortex; Rat strains; Response inhibition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INHIBITION KINETICS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REACTION TIME; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DENERVATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032860433     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00312-7     Document Type: Article

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