Single Unit Activity in the Rat Superior Colliculus During Reward Magnitude Task Performance

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 183-190

  Weldon, Douglas A ^a   Patterson, Carlyn A ^a   Colligan, Erica A ^a   Nemeth, Christina L ^a   Rizio, Avery A ^a  

^a HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

action potential; attention; learning; multimodal processing; reinforcement

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MAZE TEST; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; RAT; REWARD; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 40749144754     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.122.1.183     Document Type: Article

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