Minimal impairment in a rat model of duration discrimination following excitotoxic lesions of primary auditory and prefrontal cortices

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEPTEMBER 2011, 2011, Pages

  Pai, Shraddha ^a,d   Erlich, Jeffrey C ^b,c   Kopec, Charles ^b,c   Brody, Carlos D ^b,c  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal behavior; Audition; Auditory cortex; Cognition; Excitotoxins; Perception; Timing

Indexed keywords

EXCITOTOXIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITOTOXICITY; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

EID: 84856139629     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2011.00074     Document Type: Article

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