The nucleus accumbens unit activities related to the emotional significance of complex environmental stimuli in freely moving cats

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 183-189

  Yanagimoto, Kazuyuki ^a,c   Maeda, Hisao ^a,b  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KURUME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Appetitiveness; Aversion; Emotion; Freely moving cats; Nucleus accumbens; Unit activity

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BEHAVIOR; CAT; EMOTION; ENVIRONMENT; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0038290403     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(03)00058-0     Document Type: Article

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