Short-lasting conditioned stimulus applied to the middle cerebellar peduncle elicits delayed conditioned eye blink responses in the decerebrate ferret

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 4333-4340

  Svensson, P ^a   Ivarsson, M ^a  

^a Section for Neurophysiology   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Classical conditioning; Cortex; Mossy fibres; Trace

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYELID REFLEX; FERRET; FORELIMB; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; UPPER EYELID;

ANIMALS; BLINKING; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DECEREBRATE STATE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FERRETS; FORELIMB; MALE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033432686     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00862.x     Document Type: Article

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