The importance of cerebellar cortex and facial nucleus in acquisition and retention of eyeblink/NM conditioning: Evidence for critical unilateral regulation of the conditioned response

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 96-111

  Clark, Robert E ^a,b   Zhang, Andrew A ^a   Lavond, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EYELID REFLEX; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; RETICULAR FORMATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0031103401     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1996.3740     Document Type: Article

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