Effect of delay interval on classical eyeblink conditioning in 5-month-old human infants

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 329-340

  Klaflin, Dragana I ^a,b,c   Stanton, Mark E ^a,b,d   Herbert, Jane ^a   Greer, Jennifer ^a   Eckerman, Carol O ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Delay conditioning; Eyeblink conditioning; Infant learning; Infant memory

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TRAINING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLINKING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, EYELID; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; MALE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036445507     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.10050     Document Type: Article

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