Recovery from habituation in caenorhabditis elegans is dependent on interstimulus interval and not habituation kinetics

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 840-844

  Wicks, Stephen R ^a   Rankin, Catharine H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; LASER SURGERY; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

EID: 0029806894     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.4.840     Document Type: Article

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