Spontaneous recovery but not reinstatement of the extinguished conditioned eyeblink response in the rat

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 613-625

  Thanellou, Alexandra ^a   Green, John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual; Extinction; Eyeblink conditioning; Reinstatement; Spontaneous recovery

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EYELID MOVEMENT; EYELID REFLEX; FOOTSHOCK; FREEZING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BLINKING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; ELECTROSHOCK; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; ODORS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); STARTLE REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960969641     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023582     Document Type: Article

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