Central serotonin depletion impairs both the acquisition and performance of a symmetrically reinforced go/no-go conditional visual discrimination

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 99-112

  Harrison, A A ^a   Everitt, B J ^b   Robbins, T W ^b  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5,7 DHT; Behavioural disinhibition; Discrimination; Go no go; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SEROTONIN BRAIN LEVEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; RATS; REACTION TIME; SEROTONIN; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032995030     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00117-X     Document Type: Article

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