Effects of selective excitotoxic prefrontal lesions on acquisition of nonmatching- and matching-to-place in the T-maze in the rat: Differential involvement of the prelimbic-infralimbic and anterior cingulate cortices in providing behavioural flexibility

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 4457-4466

  Dias, R ^a,b   Aggleton, J P ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternation; Cingulate; Matching to place; Prelimbic; Response rules; Reversal learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PERSEVERATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; GYRUS CINGULI; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICROINJECTIONS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEUROTOXINS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 0034502468     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0953-816X.2000.01323.x     Document Type: Article

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