Dorsal striatum and stimulus-response learning: Lesions of the dorsolateral, but not dorsomedial, striatum impair acquisition of a simple discrimination task

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 150, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 15-23

  Featherstone, R E ^a   McDonald, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caudate putamen; Go no go; Operant learning; Pavlovian learning; Quinolinic acid; Stimulus outcome

Indexed keywords

NEUROTOXIN; QUINOLINIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

EID: 1642379611     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(03)00218-3     Document Type: Article

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