Overexpectation: Response loss during sustained stimulus compounding in the rabbit nictitating membrane preparation

Learning and Memory

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 476-483

  Kehoe, E James ^a   White, Natasha E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REINFORCEMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; NICTITATING MEMBRANE; RABBITS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 4043056743     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.77604     Document Type: Article

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