Bilateral Nature of the Conditioned Eyeblink Response in the Rabbit: Behavioral Characteristics and Potential Mechanisms

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1306-1317

  Lee, Taekwan ^a   Kim, Jeansok J ^b   Wagner, Allan R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

cerebellum; classical conditioning; fear; learning; memory

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EYELID REFLEX; FACILITATION; FEAR; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PONTOCEREBELLAR TRACT; RABBIT; REINFORCEMENT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLINKING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 57049133526     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013591     Document Type: Article

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