Neurotoxic lesions of basolateral, but not central, amygdala interfere with pavlovian second-order conditioning and reinforcer devaluation effects

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 5256-5265

  Hatfield, Tammy ^a   Han, Jung Soo ^a   Conley, Michael ^b   Gallagher, Michela ^a   Holland, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

amygdala central nucleus; basolateral amygdala; classical conditioning; rats; reinforcer devaluation; second order conditioning

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0029758993     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-16-05256.1996     Document Type: Article

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