Acquisition, extinction, and reacquisition of a cerebellar cortical memory trace

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2493-2502

  Jirenhed, Dan Anders ^a   Bengtsson, Fredrik ^a   Hesslow, Germund ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Classical conditioning; Climbing fiber; Eyeblink; Mossy fiber; Purkinje cell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FORELIMB; MICROELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BLINKING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FERRETS; FORELIMB; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE FIBERS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; ORBIT; PURKINJE CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33847770751     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4202-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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