Selective Changes in Foraging Behavior Following Bilateral Neurotoxic Amygdala Lesions in Rhesus Monkeys

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 761-772

  Machado, Christopher J ^a,b   Emery, Nathan J ^c   Mason, William A ^a   Amaral, David G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Avoidance; Danger; Food preference; Foraging; Nonhuman primate

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEOPHOBIA; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; RHESUS MONKEY;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCES; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 78650112373     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021560     Document Type: Article

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