The ontogeny of interstimulus interval (ISI) discrimination of the conditioned eyeblink response in rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1057-1070

  Brown, Kevin L ^a   Pagani, Jerome H ^a   Stanton, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Conditioned response timing; Development; Eyeblink conditioning; ISI discrimination

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; INTERSTIMULUS INTERVAL DISCRIMINATION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLINKING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; WEANING;

EID: 33750040272     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.5.1057     Document Type: Article

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