Disruption of Cerebellar Cortical Inhibition in the Absence of Learning Promotes Sensory-Evoked Eyeblink Responses

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 694-700

  Poulos, Andrew M ^a   Nobuta, Hiroko ^a   Thompson, Richard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cerebellum; eyeblink conditioning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; LEARNING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SENSORY STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BLINKING; CATHETERIZATION; CEREBELLAR CORTEX; GABA ANTAGONISTS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PICROTOXIN; RABBITS;

EID: 66349110064     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015396     Document Type: Article

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