Inactivation of brainstem motor nuclei blocks expression but not acquisition of the rabbit's classically conditioned eyeblink response

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 219-227

  Krupa, David J ^a,b   Weng, Jessica ^a   Thompson, Richard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

ABDUCENS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; RETICULAR FORMATION; TRAINING;

ABDUCENS NERVE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, EYELID; EYELIDS; FACIAL MUSCLES; FACIAL NERVE; MENTAL RECALL; MICROINJECTIONS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCIMOL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RABBITS; RETICULAR FORMATION;

EID: 0029983053     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.2.219     Document Type: Article

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