Conjunctive representations, the hippocampus, and contextual fear conditioning

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 66-82

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAT; TRAINING; ANIMAL; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECALL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MENTAL RECALL; RATS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0035295896     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.1.1.66     Document Type: Article

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