Acute Ethanol Administration and Reinforcer Magnitude Reduction Both Reduce Responding and Increase Response Latency in a Go/No-Go Task

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1803-1810

  Moschak, Travis M ^a   Mitchell, Suzanne H ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral inhibition; Ethanol; Go No Go; Impulsivity; Motivation

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; SUCROSE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GO NO GO TASK; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ETHANOL; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84867020273     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2012.01789.x     Document Type: Article

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