Substantia nigra pars compacta is critical to both the acquisition and expression of learned orienting of rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 270-276

  El Amamy, Heather ^a   Holland, Peter C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala central nucleus; Attention; Conditioning; Prediction error; Substantia nigra; Transient inactivation

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD; INFORMATION; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 33745949122     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04896.x     Document Type: Article

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