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Eyeblink Conditioning Circuitry: Tracing, Lesion, and Reversible Lesion Experiments

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Lavond, D.G., Cartford, M.C. (2002). Eyeblink Conditioning Circuitry: Tracing, Lesion, and Reversible Lesion Experiments. In: Woodruff-Pak, D.S., Steinmetz, J.E. (eds) Eyeblink Classical Conditioning: Volume 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46897-2_3

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