Perceptual attentional set-shifting is impaired in rats with neurotoxic lesions of posterior parietal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 676-681

  Fox, Matthew T ^a   Barense, Morgan D ^a   Baxter, Mark G ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Frontal cortex; Posterior parietal cortex; Rats; Reversal learning; Set shifting

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FRONTAL CORTEX; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0037439912     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-02-00676.2003     Document Type: Article

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