Motor-skill learning: Changes in synaptic organization of the rat cerebellar cortex

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 221-229

  Anderson, Brenda J ^a   Alcantara, Adriana A ^a   Greenough, William T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CLIMBING FIBER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEARNING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030237080     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1996.0062     Document Type: Article

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