Sustained visual attention performance-associated prefrontal neuronal activity: Evidence for cholinergic modulation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 4745-4757

  Gill, T Michael ^a   Sarter, Martin ^a   Givens, Ben ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

192 IgG saporin; Acetylcholine; Attention; Basal forebrain; Cholinergic; Medial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOTOXIN; SAPONIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0342657269     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-12-04745.2000     Document Type: Article

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