Dissociations between medial prefrontal cortical subregions in the modulation of learning and action

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 383-395

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

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Attention; Medial prefrontal cortex; Overshadowing; Partial reinforcement

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOPEDUNCULAR CORTEX; EXCITOTOXICITY; INFRALIMBIC CORTEX; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TENIA TECTA;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; N-METHYLASPARTATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79958744417     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023515     Document Type: Article

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