Extending in vitro conditioning in Aplysia to analyze operant and classical processes in the same preparation

Learning and Memory

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 412-420

  Brembs, Björn ^a,b   Baxter, Douglas A ^a   Byrne, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN GANGLION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APLYSIA; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHEEK; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROBIOLOGY;

EID: 4043124907     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.74404     Document Type: Article

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