Neural correlates of memorized associations and cued movements in archistriatum of the domestic chick

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1935-1946

  Aoki, Naoya ^a   Izawa, Ei Ichi ^a,b   Yanagihara, Shin ^a,b,c   Matsushima, Toshiya ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Association memory; Imprinting; Passive avoidance task; Reinforcement learning; Sensori motor coordination

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN; CHICKEN; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BASAL GANGLIA; CHICKENS; CUES; MEMORY; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; NEURONS;

EID: 0037512310     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02632.x     Document Type: Article

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