The cerebellum is necessary for rabbit classical eyeblink conditioning with a non-somatosensory (photic) unconditioned stimulus

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 105-112

  Rogers, Ronald F ^a   Fender, Abbey F ^a   Steinmetz, Joseph E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Classical conditioning; Electrolytic lesions; Eyelid; Interpositus nucleus; Light

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EYELID REFLEX; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; LEARNING; LIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TRAINING;

EID: 0032861556     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(99)00054-6     Document Type: Article

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