Reversible inactivation of rat premotor cortex impairs temporal preparation, but not inhibitory control, during simple reaction-time performance

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCTOBER 2010, 2010, Pages

  Smith, Nathaniel J ^a,b   Horst, Nicole K ^a,b   Liu, Benjamine ^a,c   Caetano, Marcelo S ^a,b   Laubach, Mark ^a,b  

^a JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive control; Frontal cortex; Muscimol; Reaction time; Sensorimotor; Tract tracing

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

AGRANULAR INSULAR CORTEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; INSULA; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; ROSTRAL FORELIMB AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 79951848944     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2010.00124     Document Type: Article

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