Extinction of conditioned blink responses by cerebello-olivary pathway stimulation

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1479-1482

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

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Extinction; Eyeblink conditioning; Inferior olive; Nucleo olivary; Unconditioned stimulus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FERRET; INFERIOR OLIVE; LEARNING; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING, EYELID; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FERRETS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS;

EID: 34548087273     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282e326e8     Document Type: Article

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