Transient inactivation of the pigeon hippocampus or the nidopallium caudolaterale during extinction learning impairs extinction retrieval in an appetitive conditioning paradigm

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 265, Issue , 2014, Pages 93-100

  Lengersdorf, Daniel ^a   Stüttgen, Maik C ^a   Uengoer, Metin ^b   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contextual learning; Renewal; Sign tracking; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; NIDOPALLIUM CAUDOLATERAL; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CONTEXTUAL LEARNING; RENEWAL; SIGN TRACKING; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COLUMBIDAE; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MENTAL RECALL; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 84896001924     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.02.025     Document Type: Article

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