The role of the rat medial prefrontal cortex in adapting to changes in instrumental contingency.

In order to select actions appropriate to current needs, a subject must identify relationships between actions and events. Control over the environment is determined by the degree to which action consequences can be predicted, as described by action-outcome contingencies--i.e. performing an action s...

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Main Authors: Etienne Coutureau, Frederic Esclassan, Georges Di Scala, Alain R Marchand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3319541?pdf=render