Hippocampal Theta-Band Activity and Trace Eyeblink Conditioning in Rabbits

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 631-640

  Nokia, Miriam S ^a   Penttonen, Markku ^a   Korhonen, Tapani ^a   Wikgren, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

classical conditioning; hippocampus; local field potential; rabbit; theta

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; REACTION TIME; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; THETA RHYTHM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BLINKING; CONDITIONING, EYELID; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MOTIVATION; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 66349119972     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015334     Document Type: Article

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