Cerebellar cortex lesions prevent acquisition of conditioned eyelid responses

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 10940-10947

  Garcia, Keith S ^a   Steele, Philip M ^a   Mauk, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical eyelid conditioning; Deep cerebellar nucleus; Extinction; LTD; LTP; Motor learning; Nictitating membrane; Pavlovian eyelid conditioning; Timing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

EID: 0033573377     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-24-10940.1999     Document Type: Article

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