Lesions of the caudal area of rabbit medial prefrontal cortex impair trace eyeblink conditioning

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 147-162

  Kronforst Collins, Michelle A ^a   Disterhoft, John F ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RABBIT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031928226     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1997.3818     Document Type: Article

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