Involvement of the human medial cerebellum in long-term habituation of the acoustic startle response

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 359-367

  Maschke, Matthias ^a   Drepper, Johannes ^a   Kindsvater, Kerstin ^a   Kolb, Florian P ^b   Diener, Hans Christoph ^a   Timmann, Dagmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle response; Cerebellum; Habituation; Non associative motor learning

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; MALE; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STARTLE REFLEX; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE;

EID: 0033926892     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210000417     Document Type: Article

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