Associative plasticity in the medial auditory thalamus and cerebellar interpositus nucleus during eyeblink conditioning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 8787-8796

  Halverson, Hunter E ^a   Lee, Inah ^a   Freeman, John H ^a  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CONDITIONING; EYELID REFLEX; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; THALAMUS; TRAINING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CEREBELLAR NUCLEI; CONDITIONING, EYELID; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954392265     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0208-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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