Superior colliculus lesions impair threat responsiveness in infant capuchin monkeys

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 504, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 257-260

  Maior, Rafael S ^a   Hori, Etsuro ^b   Barros, Marilia ^a   Teixeira, Danilo S ^a   Tavares, Maria Clotilde H ^a   Ono, Taketoshi ^b   Nishijo, Hisao ^b   Tomaz, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cebus; Ibotenic acid; Superior colliculus; Threat recognition

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CEBUS; FOOD; KLUVER BUCY SYNDROME; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SNAKE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; CEBUS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESCAPE REACTION; FEAR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; IBOTENIC ACID; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INSTILLATION, DRUG; KLUVER-BUCY SYNDROME; NEUROTOXINS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SNAKES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI;

EID: 82455167995     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.09.042     Document Type: Article

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