The synergy of working memory and inhibitory control: Behavioral, pharmacological and neural functional evidences

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 202-212

  Grégoire, Stéphanie ^a,b,c   Rivalan, Marion ^a,b,d   Le Moine, Catherine ^a,b   Dellu Hagedorn, Françoise ^a,b  

^a UMR 5287   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioral inhibition; D amphetamine; Dopaminergic receptor; Inter individual differences; Prefrontal cortex; Working memory

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; METHAMPHETAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; STRIATE CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEXTROAMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1;

EID: 84856804260     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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