Contextual fear conditioning, conjunctive representations, pattern completion, and the hippocampus

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 867-880

  Rudy, Jerry W ^a   O'Reilly, Randall C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; RAT; SENSORY SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0033495118     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.5.867     Document Type: Article

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