Evidence of plasticity in the pontocerebellar conditioned stimulus pathway during classical conditioning of the eyeblink response in the rabbit

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 267-285

  Tracy, Jo Anne ^b   Thompson, Judith K ^b   Krupa, David J ^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; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYELID REFLEX; LEARNING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PONS ANGLE; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING, EYELID; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FLUORESCENT DYES; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MEMORY; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PONS; RABBITS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0031969204     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.112.2.267     Document Type: Article

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