Delay activity in avian prefrontal cortex - sample code or reward code?

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 726-735

  Browning, Rebecca ^a   Bruce Overmier, J ^b   Colombo, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay activity; Differential outcomes; Directed forgetting; Memory; NCL

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAY ACTIVITY; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLUMBIDAE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MEMORY; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; REWARD;

EID: 79951492856     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07540.x     Document Type: Article

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