Activity in the rabbit somatosensory cortex reflects the active procedural memory trace of a classically conditioned eyeblink response

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 341, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 119-122

  Wikgren, Jan ^a   Ruusuvirta, Timo ^b   Korhonen, Tapani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Eyeblink conditioning; Multiple unit activity; Procedural learning; Rabbit; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS;

EID: 0344838639     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00180-0     Document Type: Article

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