Dorsal hippocampal involvement in appetitive trace conditioning and interval timing

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 258-269

  Tam, Shu K E ^a,b   Bonardi, Charlotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gap; Pavlovian trace conditioning; Peak procedure; Rats; Temporal control

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERVAL TIMING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRACE CONDITIONING; ANIMAL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; RATS;

EID: 84858448625     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027164     Document Type: Article

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