Involvement of the lateral and dorsolateral amygdala in conditioned stimulus modality dependent two-way avoidance performance in rats

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 131-147

  Werka, Tomasz ^a  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Amygdalostriatal transition area; Blocking; Rat; Shuttle box; Stimulus saliency; Transfer

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; RAT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0031864619     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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