Orbitofrontal Lesions Impair Use of Cue-Outcome Associations in a Devaluation Task.
The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) has been implicated in the use of outcome expectancies to guide behavior. The present study used a devaluation task to examine this function. Rats first received light-food pairings followed by food-toxin pairings designed to devalue the food. After either excitotoxic...
| Publicado en: | Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 119; no. 1; pp. 317 - 323 |
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American Psychological Association
February 2005
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