Dissociable contributions of anterior cingulate cortex and basolateral amygdala on a rodent cost/benefit decision-making task of cognitive effort

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1558-1567

  Hosking, Jay G ^a   Cocker, Paul J ^a   Winstanley, Catharine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal models; choice; individual differences; mental effort; neural circuitry

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN; MUSCIMOL; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EXERCISE; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; IMPULSIVENESS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; ANIMAL; ATTENTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LONG EVANS RAT; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BACLOFEN; BASOLATERAL NUCLEAR COMPLEX; COGNITION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DECISION MAKING; GABA AGONISTS; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCIMOL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL EXERTION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84900562796     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2014.27     Document Type: Article

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