Lesions of the Orbitofrontal but not Medial Prefrontal Cortex Disrupt Conditioned Reinforcement in Primates

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 35, 2003, Pages 11189-11201

  Pears, Andrew ^a   Parkinson, John A ^a   Hopewell, Lucy ^a   Everitt, Barry J ^b   Roberts, Angela C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appetitive conditioning; Excitotoxic; Goal directed behavior; Incentive value; Marmoset; Second order schedule

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0242340265     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-35-11189.2003     Document Type: Article

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