Fos Expression in the Prefrontal Cortex and Nucleus Accumbens Following Exposure to Retrospective Timing Tasks

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 202-214

  Valencia Torres, L ^a   Olarte Sanchez C M ^a   Body, S ^a   Fone, K C F ^a   Bradshaw, C M ^a   Szabadi, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fos expression; Interval timing; Nucleus accumbens shell; Orbital prefrontal cortex; Temporal discrimination

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; LIGHT INTENSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME;

EID: 79954564352     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022623     Document Type: Article

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