Ontogeny of eyeblink conditioning using a visual conditional stimulus

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 253-263

  Paczkowski, Christine ^a   Ivkovich, Dragana ^a   Stanton, Mark E ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cerebellum; Development; Eyeblink conditioning; Learning; Sensory; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLINKING; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS;

EID: 0032736142     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199912)35:4<253::AID-DEV1>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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