Associative plasticity in neurons of the lateral amygdala during auditory fear conditioning

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 985, Issue , 2003, Pages 485-487

  Blair, Hugh T ^a   Tinkelman, Amanda ^b   Moita, Marta A P ^c   LeDoux, Joseph E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory fear conditioning; Conditioned stimulus (CS); Lateral amygdala (LA); Neuron; Unconditioned stimulus (US)

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEAR; HISTOGRAM; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037276977     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb07106.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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