Prefrontal Control of Trace Eyeblink Conditioning in Rabbits: Role in Retrieval of the CR?

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 841-848

  Oswald, B B ^a,b,c   Maddox, S A ^a,c   Powell, D A ^a,d  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Continuing Education Credit Programs ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cingulated cortex; learning; lesions; memory; prelimbic cortex

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONDITIONED REFLEX; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RABBIT; SHAM PROCEDURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLINKING; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, EYELID; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FEMALE; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RABBITS; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 50849105432     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.122.4.841     Document Type: Article

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