Decremental effects of context exposure following delay eyeblink conditioning in rabbits

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 730-734

  Poulos, Andrew M ^a,c   Pakaprot, Narawut ^a   Mahdi, Benjamin ^a   Kehoe, E James ^b   Thompson, Richard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical conditioning; Context; Extinction; Eyeblink conditioning; Memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAGE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; EXPOSURE; EYELID REFLEX; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; STIMULUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BLINKING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, EYELID; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745925318     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.3.730     Document Type: Article

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