Simultaneous training on two hippocampus-dependent tasks facilitates acquisition of trace eyeblink conditioning

Learning and Memory

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 201-207

  Kuo, Amy G ^a,b   Lee, Grace ^a,c   Disterhoft, John F ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CONDITIONING; EYELID REFLEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING THEORY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, EYELID; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33645506516     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.98406     Document Type: Article

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