Attention to visual, but not tactile, properties of a stimulus results in activation of FOS protein in the visual thalamic reticular nucleus of rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 248-252

  Petrof, Iraklis ^a   Brown, Verity J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activation; Attention; Fos; Immunocytochemistry

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TACTILE MEMORY; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; THALAMIC NUCLEI; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77952425687     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.03.045     Document Type: Article

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