Attenuation of context-specific inhibition on reversal learning of a stimulus-response task in rats with neurotoxic hippocampal damage

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 113-126

  McDonald, Robert J ^a   Ko, Caroline H ^a   Hong, Nancy S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition; Context; Context detection; Habit; Hippocampus; Inhibition; Latent inhibition; Learning; Radial maze; Reversal learning; Stimulus response

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BRAIN INJURY; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ATROPINE; ATTENTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REVERSAL LEARNING;

EID: 0037126185     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00104-3     Document Type: Article

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