Effects of insular cortex lesions on conditioned taste aversion and latent inhibition in the rat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2627-2632

  Roman, Christopher ^a   Reilly, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned taste aversion; Gustatory neophobia; Insular cortex; Latent inhibition; Rat

Indexed keywords

SACCHARIN SODIUM;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; INSULA; LATENT INHIBITION; MALE; NEOPHOBIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASTE AVERSION; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DENERVATION; LEARNING; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHOBIC DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SACCHARIN; TASTE; TASTE DISORDERS;

EID: 35748970453     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05872.x     Document Type: Article

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