Single forebrain neurons represent interval timing and reward amount during response scheduling

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2923-2931

  Kalenscher, Tobias ^a   Ohmann, Tobias ^b   Windmann, Sabine ^c   Freund, Nadja ^b   Güntürkün, Onur ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climbing activity; Impulsivity; NCL; Pigeon; Prefrontal cortex; Self control

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; MAMMAL; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; SELF CONTROL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSENCEPHALON; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; REWARD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33751353231     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.05167.x     Document Type: Article

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