Medial auditory thalamic nuclei are necessary for eyeblink conditioning

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 880-887

  Halverson, Hunter E ^a   Freeman, John H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Eyelid; Learning; Medial geniculate; Posterior intralaminar nucleus; Suprageniculate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NONHUMAN; RAT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLINKING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; MALE; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33747330827     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.4.880     Document Type: Article

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