The amygdala and flavour preference conditioning: Crossed lesions and inactivation

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 403-412

  Dwyer, Dominic M ^a   Iordanova, Mihaela D ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GABA; Learning; Motivation; Nucleus accumbens; Taste

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSE; MALTODEXTRIN; MUSCIMOL; SUCROSE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS; TASTE PREFERENCE; TRAINING;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FOOD PREFERENCES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MUSCIMOL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 77957224258     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.07.004     Document Type: Article

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