Developmental changes in medial auditory thalamic contributions to associative motor learning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 6841-6850

  Ng, Ka H ^a   Freeman, John H ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; LEARNING; MALE; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SPIKE; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CONDITIONING, EYELID; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; THALAMUS;

EID: 84861160032     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0284-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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