Excitotoxic lesions of the infralimbic, but not prelimbic cortex facilitate reversal of appetitive discriminative context conditioning: The role of the infralimbic cortex in context generalization

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Ashwell, Rachel ^a   Ito, Rutsuko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conditioned place preference; Context generalization; Infralimbic cortex; Medial prefrontal cortex; Prelimbic cortex; Reversal learning; Spatial context learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITIVE LEARNING; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CONDITIONED PLACE PREFERENCE TEST; CONDITIONING; CONTEXT CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITOTOXICITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFRALIMBIC CORTEX; LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; RADIAL ARM MAZE TEST; RAT; REWARD; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL LEARNING;

EID: 84897009052     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00063     Document Type: Article

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