Hippocampal synaptic plasticity during instrumental learning

Current Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 332-339

  Port, Richard L ^a   Murphy, Heather A ^a   Daniel Miller, R ^a   Seybold, Kevin S ^b  

^a SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GROVE CITY COLLEGE   (United States)

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