Effects of lesions of the amygdala central nucleus on autoshaped lever pressing

Brain Research

Volumn 1450, Issue , 2012, Pages 49-56

  Chang, Stephen E ^a   Wheeler, Daniel S ^a   Holland, Peter C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Autoshaping; Incentive salience; Orienting; Pavlovian instrumental transfer

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CELL SHAPE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHAM PROCEDURE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

RATTUS;

EID: 84862777454     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.02.029     Document Type: Article

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