A mechanism for savings in the cerebellum

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 4081-4089

  Medina, Javier F ^a   Garcia, Keith S ^a   Mauk, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction; Eyelid conditioning; Learning; LTD; LTP; Memory; Plasticity; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDITIONING; EYELID; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

EID: 0035370953     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.21-11-04081.2001     Document Type: Article

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