Olfactory associative learning in Caenorhabditis elegans is impaired in lrn-1 and lrn-2 mutants

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 358-367

  Morrison, Glenn E ^a   Wen, Joseph Y M ^b   Runciman, Susan ^b   Van Der Kooy, Derek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3 BUTANEDIONE; ACETIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING DISORDER; MOTIVATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; ODOR; SMELLING; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASTE; WORM;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMOTAXIS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MUTATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS;

EID: 0032895951     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.2.358     Document Type: Article

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