Effects of medial septal lesions on action-outcome associations in rats under conditions of delayed reinforcement

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1240-1252

  Numan, Robert ^a   Ouimette, Amy S ^a   Holloway, Katherine A ^a   Curry, Cristi E ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBABILITY; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN DISEASES; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROLYSIS; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SEPTUM OF BRAIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 9644310355     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.6.1240     Document Type: Article

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