title: Time course of the rabbit's conditioned nictitating membrane movements during acquisition, extinction, and reacquisition.
abstract: The present experiment tested whether or not the time course of a conditioned eyeblink response, particularly its duration, would expand and contract, as the magnitude of the conditioned response (CR) changed massively during acquisition, extinction, and reacquisition. The CR duration remained largely constant throughout the experiment, while CR onset and peak time occurred slightly later during extinction. The results suggest that computational models can account for these results by using two layers of plasticity conforming to the sequence of synapses in the cerebellar pathways that mediate eyeblink conditioning.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia j.kehoe@unsw.edu.au ejameskehoe@gmail.com.
authors.forename: E James
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Kehoe
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Elliot A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Ludvig
authors.affiliation: Department of Computing Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton T6G 2E8, Canada.
authors.forename: Richard S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Sutton
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001767:Blinking; D003215:Conditioning, Eyelid / Q000502:physiology*; D005108:Extinction, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D009043:Motor Activity; D009541:Nictitating Membrane / Q000502:physiology*; D011817:Rabbits; D013997:Time Factors