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The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B
Comparative and Physiological Psychology
Volume 35, 1983 - Issue 2
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Septal driving of the hippocampal theta rhythm produces a long-term, proactive and non-associative increase in resistance to extinction

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Pages 97-118 | Received 01 Feb 1982, Published online: 29 May 2007

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