Role of Acetylcholine in Negative Patterning in Turtles (Chrysemys picta)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 804-809

  Powers, Alice Schade ^a   Hogue, Phillip ^a   Lynch, Christian ^a   Gattuso, Brian ^a   Lissek, Shmuel ^a   Nayal, Christine ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

autoshaping; basal forebrain; negative patterning; scopolamine; turtles

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; METHYLSCOPOLAMINE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; SCOPOLAMINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING DISORDER; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; TURTLE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC ANTAGONISTS; LEARNING; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; N-METHYLSCOPOLAMINE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SCOPOLAMINE; TURTLES;

EID: 67949112680     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016320     Document Type: Article

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