Evidence of a role for orbital prefrontal cortex in preventing over-generalization to moderate predictors of biologically significant events

Neuroscience

Volumn 345, Issue , 2017, Pages 49-63

  Trow, Jan E ^a   Hong, Nancy S ^a   Jones, Ashley M ^a   Lapointe, Jennifer ^a   MacPhail, Jamie K ^a   McDonald, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

context; discrimination; generalization; orbital prefrontal cortex; prediction; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITE; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE FEAR CONDITIONING TO CONTEXT TASK; ENVIRONMENT; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEAR CONDITIONING TEST; FOOTSHOCK; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; ORBIT; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; UNCERTAINTY; ANIMAL; CONDITIONING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FEAR; INDWELLING CATHETER; LONG EVANS RAT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; MUSCIMOL;

ANIMALS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MUSCIMOL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 85006142015     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.10.017     Document Type: Article

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