Stimulus generalization of fear responses: Effects of auditory cortex lesions in a computational model and in rats

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 157-165

  Armony, Jorge L ^a   Servan Schreiber, David ^b   Romanski, Lizabeth M ^c   Cohen, Jonathan D ^b,d   LeDoux, Joseph E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THALAMUS;

EID: 0030897759     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/7.2.157     Document Type: Article

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