Brain substrates of classical eyeblink conditioning: A highly localized but also distributed system

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 13-24

  Steinmetz, Joseph E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Cerebellum; Hippocampus; Inferior olive; Motor learning; Nictitating membrane response; Pavlovian conditioning; Pontine nuclei

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONFERENCE PAPER; EYELID REFLEX; HUMAN; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ANIMALS; BLINKING; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; HUMANS; RABBITS;

EID: 0034094760     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(99)00181-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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