Prefrontal Cortical Inactivations Decrease Willingness to Expend Cognitive Effort on a Rodent Cost/Benefit Decision-Making Task

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1529-1538

  Hosking, Jay G ^a   Cocker, Paul J ^a   Winstanley, Catharine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

animal model; cortico limbic striatal circuits; infralimbic cortex; mental effort; prelimbic cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DISTRACTIBILITY; HABITUATION; IMPULSIVENESS; INFRALIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRELIMBIC CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; LONG EVANS RAT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD;

EID: 84963805034     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu321     Document Type: Article

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