Development of an aversive Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer task in rat

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Campese, Vincent ^a   McCue, Margaret ^b   Lázaro Muñoz, Gabriel ^a   LeDoux, Joseph E ^a,b   Cain, Christopher K ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Instrumental; Pavlovian; Rat; Shuttling; Transfer

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PAVLOVIAN TO INSTRUMENTAL TRANSFER; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; TRAINING;

EID: 84888326507     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00176     Document Type: Article

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