The neural substrates of deliberative decision making: Contrasting effects of hippocampus lesions on performance and vicarious trial and-error behavior in a spatial memory task and a visual discrimination task

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCTOBER 2012, 2012, Pages 1-32

  Bett, David ^a,b   Allison, Elizabeth ^b   Murdoch, Lauren ^b   Kaefer, Karola ^b   Wood, Emma R ^b   Dudchenko, Paul A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; References; Vicarious trial and error; VTE

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VICARIOUS TRIAL AND ERROR BEHAVIOR; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 84867593902     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2012.00070     Document Type: Article

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