Prefrontal control of trace versus delay eyeblink conditioning: Role of the unconditioned stimulus in rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1033-1042

  Oswald, Barbara ^a,b   Knuckley, Bryan ^a,b   Mahan, Kathleen ^a,b   Sanders, Clara ^a,b   Powell, D A ^a,b,c  

^a WJB Dorn VA Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cingulate cortex; Classical conditioning; Prefrontal cortex; Prelimbic area; Rabbits

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RABBIT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BLINKING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE NET; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RABBITS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33750069152     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.5.1033     Document Type: Article

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