Classical eyeblink conditioning in two strains of mice: Conditioned responses, sensitization, and spontaneous eyeblinks

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 714-718

  Bao, Shaowen ^b   Chen, Lu ^b   Thompson, Richard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; REINFORCEMENT; SENSITIZATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLINKING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, EYELID; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031832663     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.112.3.714     Document Type: Article

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