Eyeblink Conditioning Leads to Fewer Synapses in the Rabbit Cerebellar Cortex

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 856-862

  Connor, S ^a   Bloomfield, J ^a   LeBoutillier, J C ^c   Thompson, R F ^b   Petit, T L ^c   Weeks, A C W ^a  

^a NIPISSING UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

cerebellar cortex; eyeblink conditioning; learning; memory; synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PURKINJE CELL; RABBIT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CEREBELLAR CORTEX; CONDITIONING, EYELID; MALE; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PURKINJE CELLS; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 67949085074     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016370     Document Type: Article

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