Amygdala-hippocampal involvement in human aversive trace conditioning revealed through event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 10869-10876

  Büchel, Christian ^a   Dolan, Raymond J ^a,b   Armony, Jorge L ^a,c   Friston, Karl J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Emotional learning; Fear; Functional neuroimaging; Medial temporal lobe; Memory

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BRAIN REGION; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

EID: 0242343181     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-24-10869.1999     Document Type: Article

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