Transient inactivation of the medial prefrontal cortex impairs performance on a working memory-dependent conditional discrimination task

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 639-643

  Urban, Kimberly R ^a   Layfield, Dylan M ^a   Griffin, Amy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional discrimination; Inactivation; Muscimol; Prefrontal cortex; Working memory

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX INACTIVATION; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CONDITIONING; DRUG EFFECTS; LONG EVANS RAT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MUSCIMOL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84925769572     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/bne0000020     Document Type: Article

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