Learning from the spinal cord: How the study of spinal cord plasticity informs our view of learning

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 108, Issue , 2014, Pages 155-171

  Grau, James W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflammation; Injury; Instrumental conditioning; Operant; Pavlovian conditioning; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

INFLAMMATION; INJURY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; OPERANT; PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONING; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; LEARNING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PAIN; RATS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84893735365     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.08.003     Document Type: Review

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