Attentional Orienting Is Impaired by Unilateral Lesions of the Thalamic Reticular Nucleus in the Rat

This work was supported by The Wellcome Trust Project Grant 051945/Z/97/Z. We thank Dr. C. Davidson for assistance, M. Latimer for performing the histology, and the animal care staff of the School of Psychology Animal House and the workshop technicians, particularly Pete Wilcox for the maintenance of equipment.

Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Verity J. Brown, School of Psychology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews KY16 9JU, Scotland, UK. E-mail: vjb{at}st-and.ac.uk.