Stress enhances excitatory trace eyeblink conditioning and opposes acquisition of inhibitory conditioning

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1327-1338

  Beylin, Anna V ^a   Shors, Tracey J ^b,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FACILITATION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SHOCK; STRESS;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BLINKING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, EYELID; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0032440611     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.112.6.1327     Document Type: Article

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