Odor-guided fear conditioning in rats: 2. Lesions of the anterior perirhinal cortex disrupt fear conditioned to the explicit conditioned stimulus but not to the training context

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1265-1272

  Herzog, Christopher ^b   Otto, Tim ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CEREBRAL DECORTICATION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; FEAR; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; ODORS; RATS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0031452487     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.6.1265     Document Type: Article

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