Dissociation of attention in learning and action: Effects of lesions of the amygdala central nucleus, medial prefrontal cortex, and posterior parietal cortex

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-79

  Maddux, Jean Marie ^a   Kerfoot, Erin C ^a,b   Chatterjee, Souvik ^a,c   Holland, Peter C ^a,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d 222 Ames Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Attention; Basal forebrain; Brain lesions; Learning; Medial prefrontal cortex; Posterior parietal cortex; Substantia innominata nucleus basalis magnocellularis

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; LEARNING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33847300495     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.1.63     Document Type: Article

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