Eyeblink conditioning contingent on hippocampal theta enhances hippocampal and medial prefrontal responses

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2213-2224

  Darling, Ryan D ^a   Takatsuki, Kanako ^a,b   Griffin, Amy L ^c   Berry, Stephen D ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Brain computer interface; Hippocampus; Medial prefrontal cortex; Rabbit eyeblink classical conditioning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; EYELID REFLEX CONDITIONING; FACILITATION; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRATUM LACUNOSUM MOLECULARE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; THETA RHYTHM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BLINKING; CONDITIONING, EYELID; HIPPOCAMPUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 79956276302     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00801.2010     Document Type: Article

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