Operant procedures for assessing behavioral flexibility in rats

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 96, 2015, Pages

  Brady, Anne Marie ^a   Floresco, Stan B ^b  

^a ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavior; Behavioral flexibility; Behavioral neuroscience; Executive function; Issue 96; Operant; Prefrontal cortex; Reversal learning; Schizophrenia; Strategy shifting

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MAZE TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84923609006     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/52387     Document Type: Article

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