No sex difference in contextual control over the expression of latent inhibition and extinction in Pavlovian fear conditioning in rats

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 258-278

  Maes, J H R ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Contextual control; Contextual learning; Extinction; Hippocampus; Latent inhibition; Pavlovian fear conditioning; Rat; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT INHIBITION; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHOCK; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0036434724     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.2002.4058     Document Type: Article

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