Differential Involvement of the Basolateral Amygdala, Orbitofrontal Cortex, and Nucleus Accumbens Core in the Acquisition and Use of Reward Expectancies

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 896-906

  Ramirez, Donna R ^a   Savage, Lisa M ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

amygdala; nucleus accumbens; orbitofrontal cortex; rat; reward expectancy

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORBITAL CORTEX; RAT; REWARD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FORNIX, BRAIN; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD;

EID: 35748959693     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.5.896     Document Type: Article

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