Associative learning in humans - Conditioning of sensory-evoked brain activity

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 1-8

  Skrandies, W ^a   Jedynak, A ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain electrical topography; Classical conditioning; Human learning; Somatosensory evoked potential (SEP); Visual evoked potential (VEP)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROSHOCK; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0033991718     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(99)00096-0     Document Type: Article

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