Ultrasonic vocalization ratios reflect the influence of motivational state and amygdala lesions on different types of taste avoidance learning

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 88-98

  Hamdani, Selma ^a   White, Norman M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; Conditioned taste avoidance; Latent learning; Lithium chloride; Pavlovian conditioning; Rat ultrasonic vocalizations; Taste learning; Water deprivation

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SATIETY; SWEETNESS; TASTE; ULTRASONIC VOCALIZATION; VOCALIZATION; WATER DEPRIVATION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; MALE; MOTIVATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TASTE PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 78249264154     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.09.026     Document Type: Article

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