Prefrontal neurons encode context-based response execution and inhibition in reward seeking and extinction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 30, 2015, Pages 9472-9477

  Moorman, David E ^a   Aston Jones, Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency; Electrophysiology; Extracellular; Instrumental; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EVOKED RESPONSE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

SUCROSE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUCROSE;

EID: 84938150476     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1507611112     Document Type: Article

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