Thalamic-prefrontal cortical-ventral striatal circuitry mediates dissociable components of strategy set shifting

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1625-1636

  Block, Annie E ^a   Dhanji, Hasina ^a   Thompson Tardif, Sarah F ^a   Floresco, Stan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Executive function; Frontal lobe; Mediodorsal thalamus; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; ATTENTION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); THALAMUS;

EID: 34547680449     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl073     Document Type: Article

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