Cognitive Impairments after Lesions of the Neostriatum Caudolaterale and its Thalamic Afferent in Pigeons: Functional Similarities to the Mammalian Prefrontal System?

Journal of Brain Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 133-143

  Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bird; Delayed alternation learning; Dorsomedial thalamus; Go no go; Spatial behavior; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MAMMAL; NEOSTRIATUM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SENSORY NERVE; THALAMUS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAMMALS; NEOSTRIATUM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; REWARD; THALAMUS;

EID: 1842691087     PISSN: 09448160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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