Conditioned enhancement of the early component of the rat eyeblink reflex

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 212-220

  Lam, Ying Wan ^a   Wong, Angela ^a   Canli, Turhan ^a   Brown, Thomas H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EYELID REFLEX; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

EID: 0030237083     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1996.0061     Document Type: Article

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