Attentional control of associative learning-A possible role of the central cholinergic system

Brain Research

Volumn 1202, Issue , 2008, Pages 43-53

  Pauli, Wolfgang M ^a   O'Reilly, Randall C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Associative learning; Layer gain; Neural network; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; INTERNEURON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SENSORY CORTEX; SIMULATION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS;

EID: 40749145692     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.06.097     Document Type: Article

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