Elicitation, modification, and conditioning of the rabbit nictitating membrane response by electrical stimulation in the spinal trigeminal nucleus, inferior olive, interpositus nucleus, and red nucleus

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1041-1055

  Nowak, Andrew J ^b   Marshall Goodell, Beverly ^b   James Kehoe, E ^a   Gormezano, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONDITIONING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; INFERIOR OLIVE; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; RED NUCLEUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS;

ABDUCENS NERVE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, EYELID; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; RABBITS; REACTION TIME; RED NUCLEUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS, SPINAL;

EID: 0030781069     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.5.1041     Document Type: Article

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