Examination of Bilateral Eyeblink Conditioning in Rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1346-1352

  Campolattaro, Matthew M ^a   Freeman, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

cerebellum; learning; Pavlovian conditioning; timing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLINKING; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYE DOMINANCE; EYELID REFLEX; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, EYELID; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 72249105813     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017314     Document Type: Article

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