Neural substrates for serial reaction time tasks in pigeons

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 132-143

  Helduser, Sascha ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Motor sequence; Sequence execution; Serial reaction time task; Song system; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MAMMAL; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMODULATION; NIDOPALLIUM CAUDOLATERALE; NIDOPALLIUM INTERMEDIUM MEDIALIS PARS LATERALE; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 84857683306     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.02.013     Document Type: Article

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