Fear conditioning enhances different temporal components of tone-evoked spike trains in auditory cortex and lateral amygdala

Neuron

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 613-624

  Quirk, Gregory J ^a,b   Armony, Jorge L ^a   LeDoux, Joseph E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PONCE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

EID: 0030961081     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80375-X     Document Type: Article

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