Single neurons in the dentate gyrus and CA1 of the hippocampus exhibit inverse patterns of encoding during trace fear conditioning

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 164-179

  Gilmartin, Marieke R ^a   McEchron, Matthew D ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENTATE GYRUS; EYELID REFLEX; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DENTATE GYRUS; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEURONS; RATS;

EID: 14044268193     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.1.164     Document Type: Article

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