Lesions of mediodorsal thalamus and anterior thalamic nuclei produce dissociable effects on instrumental conditioning in rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1286-1294

  Corbit, Laura H ^a   Muir, Janice L ^b   Balleine, Bernard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contingency; Devaluation; Incentive; Reward; Specific satiety

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTINGENCY TABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SATIETY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EATING; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; N-METHYLASPARTATE; PROBABILITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD;

EID: 0141502087     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02833.x     Document Type: Article

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