Operant conditioning of aerial respiratory behaviour in Lymnaea stagnalis

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 683-691

  Lukowiak, Ken ^a   Ringseis, Erika ^a   Spencer, Gaynor ^a   Wildering, Wic ^a   Syed, Naweed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aerial respiratory behaviour; Associative learning; Hypoxia; Lymnaea stagnalis; Molluscan model system; Operant conditioning; Snail

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030019585     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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