Lesions of rat infralimbic cortex result in disrupted retardation but normal summation test performance following training on a Pavlovian conditioned inhibition procedure

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2654-2660

  Rhodes, S E V ^a   Killcross, A S ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition; Extinction; Inhibition; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COGNITION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DENERVATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REVERSAL LEARNING; REWARD;

EID: 35748986121     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05855.x     Document Type: Article

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