Contribution of ventrolateral prefrontal cortex to the acquisition and extinction of conditioned fear in rats

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 244-251

  Morgan, Maria A ^a,b   Ledoux, Joseph E ^a,b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Context; Extinction; Fear conditioning; Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEAR; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT;

EID: 0032746274     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1999.3907     Document Type: Article

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