Lesions of medial prefrontal cortex disrupt the acquisition but not the expression of goal-directed learning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 34, 2005, Pages 7763-7770

  Ostlund, Scan B ^a   Balleine, Bernard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Devaluation; Instrumental conditioning; Prefrontal cortex; Priming; Response selection; Reward

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REWARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEMALE; GOALS; LEARNING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 23944507547     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1921-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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