Variations in learning reflect individual differences in sensory function and synaptic integration

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1084-1095

  Matzel, Louis D ^a,b   Muzzio, Isabel A ^a   Talk, Andrew C ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOLLUSC; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; SENSORY NERVE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; HAIR CELLS, VESTIBULAR; INDIVIDUALITY; LIGHT; ORIENTATION; PHOTORECEPTORS, INVERTEBRATE; RECEPTORS, SENSORY; SNAILS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0029858603     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.5.1084     Document Type: Article

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