Conditioning method dramatically alters the role of amygdala in taste aversion learning

Learning and Memory

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 481-492

  Schafe, Glenn E ^a,b   Thiele, Todd E ^a   Bernstein, Ilene L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE AVERSION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; TASTE;

EID: 0032459415     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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