Brain cells in the avian 'prefrontal cortex' code for features of slot-machine-like gambling

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Scarf, Damian ^a   Miles, Kirby ^a   Sloan, Amanda ^a   Goulter, Natalie ^a   Hegan, Matt ^a   Seid Fatemi, Azade ^b   Harper, David ^c   Colombo, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SIMULATION; FOWL; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PIGEON; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES;

AVES; COLUMBA; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; COLUMBIDAE; GAMBLING; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD;

EID: 79551509306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014589     Document Type: Article

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