Inactivation of the medial prefrontal cortex of the rat impairs strategy set-shifting, but not reversal learning, using a novel, automated procedure

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-96

  Floresco, Stan B ^a   Block, Annie E ^a   Tse, Maric T L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drug discovery; Perseveration; Prefrontal cortex; Rat; Reversal learning; Set shifting

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUTOMATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BUPIVACAINE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REVERSAL LEARNING;

EID: 41949115175     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.02.008     Document Type: Article

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