Differential effects of amygdala lesions on early and late plastic components of auditory cortex spike trains during fear conditioning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2592-2601

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

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c PONCE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Auditory cortex; Cognition; Declarative memory; Emotion; Fear; Implicit memory

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0032053441     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-07-02592.1998     Document Type: Article

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