Computer-assisted behavioral assessment of Pavlovian fear conditioning in mice

Learning and Memory

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 58-72

  Anagnostaras, Stephan G ^a   Josselyn, Sheena A ^a   Frankland, Paul W ^a   Silva, Alcino J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; AMNESIA, RETROGRADE; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PAIN THRESHOLD; PILOT PROJECTS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0033951232     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.7.1.58     Document Type: Article

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