Excitotoxic lesions of the amygdala fail to produce impairment in visual learning for auditory secondary reinforcement but interfere with reinforcer devaluation effects in rhesus monkeys

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 6011-6020

  Málková, Ludiše ^a   Gaffan, David ^b   Murray, Elisabeth A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Auditory; Ibotenic acid; Reinforcer devaluation; Rhesus monkey; Secondary reinforcement; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

EXCITOTOXIN; IBOTENIC ACID;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; RHESUS MONKEY; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0343632381     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-15-06011.1997     Document Type: Article

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