The involvement of the human cerebellum in eyeblink conditioning

Cerebellum

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 38-57

  Gerwig, M ^a   Kolb, F P ^b   Timmann, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Delay conditioning; Non declarative learning; Structural MRI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CONDITIONED REFLEX; EYELID REFLEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MOTOR COORDINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ANIMALS; BLINKING; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING, EYELID; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33947120123     PISSN: 14734222     EISSN: 14734230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14734220701225904     Document Type: Article

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