Goal-Directed Responding Is Sensitive to Lesions to the Prelimbic Cortex or Basolateral Nucleus of the Amygdala but Not to Their Disconnection

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 443-448

  Coutureau, Etienne ^a,b   Marchand, Alain R ^a,b   Di Scala, Georges ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

basolateral amygdala; instrumental conditioning; outcome devaluation; prelimbic cortex

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL NUCLEUS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EATING; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GOALS; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; REWARD;

EID: 65249114697     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014818     Document Type: Article

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