The startled seahorse: Is the hippocampus necessary for contextual fear conditioning?

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 39-42

  Maren, Stephen ^a   Anagnostaras, Stephan G ^b   Fanselow, Michael S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FREEZING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; REVIEW; STARTLE REFLEX;

EID: 0032004822     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(98)01123-1     Document Type: Article

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