Rule learning and reward contingency are associated with dissociable patterns of dopamine activation in the rat prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, and dorsal striatum

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 34, 2006, Pages 8810-8818

  Stefani, Mark R ^a   Moghaddam, Bita ^b  

^a MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Cognition; Discrimination learning; Goal directed behavior; Schizophrenia; Set shift

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOPAMINE; GOALS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 33748251667     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1656-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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