Attentional effects of lesions to the anterior cingulate cortex: How prior reinforcement influences distractibility

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 360-371

  Newman, Lori A ^a   McGaughy, Jill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cingulated; Cognitive control; Executive function; Prefrontal cortex; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EXCITOTOXICITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GYRUS CINGULI; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REVERSAL LEARNING;

EID: 79958733297     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023250     Document Type: Article

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