The contribution of medial prefrontal cortical regions to conditioned inhibition

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 644-653

  Meyer, Heidi C ^a   Bucci, David J ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Infralimbic; Prelimbic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; INFRALIMBIC CORTEX; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INHIBITORY BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; INJURIES; LONG EVANS RAT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84925786933     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/bne0000023     Document Type: Article

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