Serial conditional discrimination and temporal bisection in rats selectively lesioned in the dentate gyrus

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 345-358

  Bueno, José Lino Oliveira ^a,b   Júnior, Lézio Soares Bueno ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Bairro Monte Alegre   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Conditional discrimination; Hippocampus; Interval timing; Operant conditioning; Selective lesion; Temporal bisection

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE;

ALKALOID; BRAIN; LESION; LIGHT EFFECT; RODENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DENTATE GYRUS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SERIAL LEARNING; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 79952622609     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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