Enhanced conditioning produced by surprising increases in reinforcer value are unaffected by lesions of the amygdala central nucleus

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 30-35

  Holland, Peter C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala central nucleus; Error signals; Reinforcement; Surprise; Unblocking

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD; LEARNING; LIGHT; MALE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 28944448281     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2005.07.001     Document Type: Article

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