Conditioning-specific reflex modification of rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) heart rate

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1484-1495

  Schreurs, Bernard G ^a,c   Crum, Jennifer M ^b   Wang, Desheng ^a   Smith Bell, Carrie A ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Alderson Broaddus College   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical conditioning; Fear conditioning; Heart rate; Nictitating membrane response; Vagus

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; HEART RATE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; P WAVE; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; Q WAVE; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HEART RATE; MALE; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; RABBITS; REACTION TIME; REFLEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 31344438337     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.6.1484     Document Type: Article

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