Deficient proactive interference of eyeblink conditioning in Wistar-Kyoto rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-65

  Ricart, Thomas M ^a,b   De Niear, Matthew A ^b   Jiao, Xilu ^b   Pang, Kevin C H ^a,b,c   Beck, Kevin D ^a,b,c   Servatius, Richard J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b Stress and Motivated Behavior Inst   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Anxiety vulnerability; Classical conditioning; Latent inhibition; Learned irrelevance; Temperament; US pre exposure effect

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; LATENT INHIBITION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROACTIVE INHIBITION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRESS; TEMPERAMENT; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, EYELID; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MALE; PROACTIVE INHIBITION; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78149415110     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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