Cholinergic control of visual categorization in macaques

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOVEMBER, 2011, Pages

  Aggelopoulos, Nikolaos C ^a   Liebe, Stefanie ^a,b   Logothetis, Nikos K ^a   Rainer, Gregor ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Categorization; Cognition; Cognitive; Learning; Macaque; Muscarinic; Scopolamine

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; SCOPOLAMINE; SCOPOLAMINE BUTYL BROMIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MACACA; MALE; MYDRIASIS; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRY; PUPIL; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84855300250     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2011.00073     Document Type: Article

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