Repeated acquisitions and extinctions in classical conditioning of the rabbit nictitating membrane response

Learning and Memory

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 366-375

  Kehoe, E James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RABBITS; REACTIVE INHIBITION;

EID: 33744823265     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.169306     Document Type: Article

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