Ontogeny of the conditioned eyeblink response in rats: Acquisition or expression?

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 37, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 623-632

  Stanton, Mark E ^a,b   Fox, Gregory D ^b   Carter, Christy S ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Associative learning; Brain development; Cerebellum; Developmental psychobiology; Hippocampus; Memory; Neural plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; EYELID REFLEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLINKING; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, EYELID; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 0031750232     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3908(98)00072-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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