Behavioral flexibility is increased by optogenetic inhibition of neurons in the nucleus accumbens shell during specific time segments

• Main Authors: Aquili, Luca *, Liu, Andrew W., Shindou, Mayumi, Shindou, Tomomi, Wickens, Jeffrey R.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2014
• Subjects: BF Psychology; QP Physiology
• Online Access: http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/259/1/DPsy.%20Aquili.%20Behavioral%20flexibility%20is%20%28OA%29.pdf; http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/259/

Behavioral flexibility is vital for survival in an environment of changing contingencies. The nucleus accumbens may play an important role in behavioral flexibility, representing learned stimulus–reward associations in neural activity during response selection and learning from results. To investiga...