The Effect of Rat Anterior Cingulate Inactivation on Cognitive Flexibility

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 698-706

  Ragozzino, Michael E ^a   Rozman, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; learning; muscimol; prefrontal cortex; rat

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; MUSCIMOL;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREAL; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GABA AGONISTS; MALE; MUSCIMOL; ODORS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 34548858758     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.4.698     Document Type: Article

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