Sensitivity to cognitive effort mediates psychostimulant effects on a novel rodent cost/benefit decision-making task

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1825-1837

  Cocker, Paul J ^a   Hosking, Jay G ^a   Benoit, James ^a   Winstanley, Catharine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

amphetamine; caffeine; cognitive effort; cost benefit decision making; individual differences; rat

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMPHETAMINE; CAFFEINE;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CAFFEINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DEXTROAMPHETAMINE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD;

EID: 84862338984     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2012.30     Document Type: Article

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