Difficulty overcoming learned non-reward during reversal learning in rats with ibotenic acid lesions of orbital prefrontal cortex

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1121, Issue , 2007, Pages 407-420

  Tait, David Scott ^a   Brown, Verity J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional set shifting; Ibotenic acid; Orbital prefrontal cortex; Perseveration; Rat; Reversal learning

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ATTENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GOAL ATTAINMENT; LEARNING; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERSEVERATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

RATTUS;

EID: 37549017070     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1401.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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