Trace eyeblink conditioning in the freely moving rat: Optimizing the conditioning parameters

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1100-1105

  Weiss, C ^a   Knuttinen, M G ^b   Power, J M ^b   Patel, R I ^b   O'Connor, M S ^b   Disterhoft, J F ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYELID REFLEX; LEARNING; MALE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0033510751     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.5.1100     Document Type: Article

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