Motor performance and motor learning in Lurcher mice

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 978, Issue , 2002, Pages 413-424

  Van Alphen, A M ^a   Schepers, T ^a   Luo, C ^a   De Zeeuw, C I ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lurcher mouse; OKR; Visuovestibular adaptation; VOR

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CEREBELLUM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; LEARNING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; TRAINING; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036964181     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb07584.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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