Long-term storage of an associative memory trace in the cerebellum

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 526-537

  Christian, Kimberly M ^a,b   Thompson, Richard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Classical conditioning; Eyeblink conditioning; Long term memory; Memory storage

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; BLINKING; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; MALE; MEMORY; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 17444423646     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.2.526     Document Type: Article

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