Time-Specific Extinction and Recovery of the Rabbit's (Oryctolagus cuniculus) Conditioned Nictitating Membrane Response Using Mixed Interstimulus Intervals

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 808-813

  Dudeney, Joanne E ^a   Olsen, Kirk N ^a   Kehoe, E James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

conditioning; extinction; interstimulus interval; rabbit; recovery

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RABBIT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAINING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; MALE; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34548813690     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.4.808     Document Type: Article

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