Thalamic reticular nucleus activation reflects attentional gating during classical conditioning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 8897-8901

  McAlonan, K ^a   Brown, V J ^a   Bowman, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Blocking; Classical conditioning; Rat; Thalamic reticular nucleus; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS;

EID: 0034555127     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-23-08897.2000     Document Type: Article

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