Long-term memory of an operantly conditioned respiratory behaviour pattern in Lymnaea stagnalis

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 201, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 877-882

  Lukowiak, Ken ^a   Cotter, Ralph ^a   Westly, Jackie ^a   Ringseis, Erika ^a   Spencer, Gaynor ^a   Syed, Naweed ^a  

^a ARABIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Bahrain)

Author keywords

Learning; Long term memory; Lymnaea stagnalis; Mollusc; Operant conditioning; Snail

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031941742     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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