Effects of excitotoxic lesions of the basolateral amygdala on conditional discrimination learning with primary and conditioned reinforcement

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 123-133

  Burns, L H ^b   Everitt, B J ^a   Robbins, T W ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b Neurex Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Conditioned reinforcement; Discrimination learning

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EXCITATORY AMINO ACIDS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0033034719     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00119-3     Document Type: Article

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