Effects of dorsal or ventral medial prefrontal cortical lesions on five-choice serial reaction time performance in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-74

  Maddux, Jean Marie ^a   Holland, Peter C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

5CSRT task; Attention; Medial prefrontal cortex; Partial reinforcement; Tenia tecta

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 79952837460     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.02.031     Document Type: Article

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