Eyeblink conditioning in the freely moving rat: Square-wave stimulation as the unconditioned stimulus

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 35-42

  Servatius, Richard J ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Neurobehavioral U New Jersey M ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Classical conditioning; Eyeblink; Intensity; Pavlovian; Unconditioned response; Unconditioned stimulus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYELID REFLEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMAL; BLINKING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MALE; MOVEMENT; RADIATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0034668138     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(00)00276-4     Document Type: Article

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