Site specificity of short-term and long-term habituation in the tail- elicited siphon withdrawal reflex of Aplysia

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 4923-4932

  Stopfer, Mark ^a,b   Chen, Xinghai ^a   Tai, Yu Tzu ^a   Huang, Gloria S ^a   Carew, Thomas J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aplysia; habituation; learning; long term; siphon; specificity; tail

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; HABITUATION; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TAIL; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

EID: 0029764361     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-16-04923.1996     Document Type: Article

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