Medial prefrontal cortex is selectively involved in response selection using visual context in the background

Learning and Memory

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 247-250

  Lee, Inah ^a   Shin, Ji Yun ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84862699547     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.025890.112     Document Type: Article

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