Inactivation of the ventral lateral geniculate and nucleus of the optic tract impairs retention of visual eyeblink conditioning

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 690-693

  Steinmetz, Adam B ^a   Buss, Eric W ^a   Freeman, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

CS pathway; Eyeblink conditioning; Nucleus of the optic tract; Ventral lateral geniculate; Visual CS

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; LATENT PERIOD; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL AND SENSORIAL PROCEDURES; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TRACT; PONTINE NUCLEUS; RAT; REVERSIBLE INACTIVATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRATION; VISUAL EYEBLINK CONDITIONING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, EYELID; GENICULATE BODIES; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84887614147     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033729     Document Type: Article

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