Role of amygdala central nucleus in feature negative discriminations

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 670-680

  Holland, Peter C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Associability; Associative learning; Attention; CeA lesions; Central nucleus; Cue associations; Feature negative discrimination; Rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEATURE NEGATIVE DISCRIMINATION; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; CONDITIONING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; RATS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84874993139     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029600     Document Type: Article

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