Lesions of the orbital prefrontal cortex impair the formation of attentional set in rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2368-2375

  Chase, E Alexander ^a   Tait, David S ^a   Brown, Verity J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional set shifting; Behavioural flexibility; Executive control; Orbital prefrontal cortex; Reversal learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CUES; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REVERSAL LEARNING; REWARD; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84864828765     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08141.x     Document Type: Article

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