Operant conditioning of rat navigation using electrical stimulation for directional cues and rewards

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 715-720

  Lee, Maan Gee ^a,b   Jun, Gayoung ^a   Choi, Hyo Soon ^a   Jang, Hwan Soo ^a,b   Bae, Yong Chul ^b   Suk, Kyoungho ^a,b   Jang, Il Sung ^b   Choi, Byung Ju ^b  

^a Kyungpook National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Intracranial self stimulation; Medial forebrain bundle; Operant conditioning; Rat navigation; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONDITIONING; ELECTRODE; RODENT; SENSORY SYSTEM; TESTING METHOD; TRAINING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FOREBRAIN; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; REWARD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LIGHT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD; SELF STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77953916191     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2010.04.007     Document Type: Article

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