Blocking NMDA-receptors in the pigeon’s “prefrontal” caudal nidopallium impairs appetitive extinction learning in a sign-tracking paradigm

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue APR, 2015, Pages

  Lengersdorf, Daniel ^a   Marks, David ^a   Uengoer, Metin ^b   Stüttgen, Maik C ^c   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

APV; Context; Renewal; Retrieval; Sign tracking

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ABSOLUTE RESPONSE COUNT; ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITIVE EXTINCTION LEARNING; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL DISINHIBITION; COLUMBA LIVIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXTINCTION MEMORY; FRACTIONAL RESPONSE COUNT; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NIDOPALLIUM CAUDOLATERALE; NONHUMAN; NORMALIZED RESPONSE COUNT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SIGN TRACKING ABA RENEWAL PARADIGM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84939807171     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00085     Document Type: Article

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