Unilateral medial frontal cortex lesions cause a cognitive decision-making deficit in rats.

The medial frontal cortex (MFC) is critical for cost-benefit decision-making. Generally, cognitive and reward-based behaviour in rodents is not thought to be lateralised within the brain. In this study, however, we demonstrate that rats with unilateral MFC lesions show a profound change in decision-...

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Những tác giả chính: Croxson, P, Walton, M, Boorman, E, Rushworth, M, Bannerman, D
Định dạng: Journal article
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014