Auditory-Evoked Spike Firing in the Lateral Amygdala and Pavlovian Fear Conditioning: Mnemonic Code or Fear Bias?

Neuron

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1013-1022

  Goosens, Ki A ^a   Hobin, Jennifer A ^a   Maren, Stephen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; EXPERIMENT; FEAR; FREEZING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE;

EID: 0346996946     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(03)00728-1     Document Type: Article

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