Lesions of orbitofrontal cortex and basolateral amygdala complex disrupt acquisition of odor-guided discriminations and reversals

Learning and Memory

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-140

  Schoenbaum, Geoffrey ^a   Setlow, Barry ^a   Nugent, Summer L ^a   Saddoris, Michael P ^a   Gallagher, Michela ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HISTOLOGY; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WORKING MEMORY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; ODORS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SMELL;

EID: 0037360529     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.55203     Document Type: Article

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