Involvement of the ventrolateral thalamic nucleus in rabbit classical eyeblink conditioning

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 105-117

  Sears, Lonnie L ^a   Logue, Sheree F ^a   Steinmetz, Joseph E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Classical conditioning; Hippocampus; Lesion; Multi unit recording; Rabbit; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; THALAMUS;

EID: 0030024763     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-4328(96)00171-4     Document Type: Article

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