Associative and non-associative blinking in classically conditioned adult rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 399-411

  Lindquist, Derick H ^a   Vogel, Richard W ^b   Steinmetz, Joseph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative blinking; CS duration; CS modality; Eyeblink conditioning; Interstimulus interval; Non associative blinking; Rat; Spontaneous blinking

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLINKING; CONDITIONING; FEMALE; LIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BLINKING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, EYELID; FEMALE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 58649119370     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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