Rat prefrontal dopamine and cognitive control: Impaired and enhanced conflict performance

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 344-349

  Haddon, Josephine E ^a   Killcross, Simon ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Dopamine; Prefrontal; Response conflict; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 7,8 DIHYDROXY 1 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN TISSUE; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; RAT; RELIABILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

2,3,4,5-TETRAHYDRO-7,8-DIHYDROXY-1-PHENYL-1H-3-BENZAZEPINE; ANIMALS; COGNITION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 79958757861     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023572     Document Type: Article

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