Stress transiently affects pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUN, 2012, Pages 1-6

  Morgado, Pedro ^a,b   Silva, Miguel ^a,b   Sousa, Nuno ^a,b   Cerqueira, João J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Choices; Conditioning; Pavlovian to instrumental transfer; Stress

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PAVLOVIAN TO INSTRUMENTAL TRANSFER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84865070755     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00093     Document Type: Article

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