Goal-Directed Responding Is Sensitive to Lesions to the Prelimbic Cortex or Basolateral Nucleus of the Amygdala but Not to Their Disconnection.

The current view of instrumental conditioning indicates that performance in the early stage of training is maintained by a representation of the outcome, as indexed by its sensitivity to changes in the value of the reward. In the present study, the authors tested the effects of a disconnection of th...

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Publicado en:	Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 123; no. 2; pp. 443 - 449
Autores principales:	Coutureau, Etienne, Marchand, Alain R., Di Scala, Georges
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	American Psychological Association April 2009
Materias:	Rat behavior Brain function localization Goal (Psychology)
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