Lesions of the basolateral amygdala disrupt selective aspects of reinforcer representation in rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2001, Pages 9018-9026

  Blundell, Pam ^a   Hall, Geoffrey ^a   Killcross, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appetitive conditioning; Basolateral amygdala; Instrumental; Pavlovian; Reinforcement; Reward

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD;

EID: 0035889979     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.21-22-09018.2001     Document Type: Article

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