A Comparison of Adult and Adolescent Rat Behavior in Operant Learning, Extinction, and Behavioral Inhibition Paradigms

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-105

  Andrzejewski, Matthew E ^a   Schochet, Terri L ^b   Feit, Elizabeth C ^a   Harris, Rachel ^a   Mckee, Brenda L ^a   Kelley, Ann E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Behavioral inhibition; Extinction; Learning; Rats

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FOOD DEPRIVATION; IMPULSIVENESS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; TRAINING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 79951839236     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022038     Document Type: Article

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