The ventral hippocampus supports a memory representation of context and contextual fear conditioning: Implications for a unitary function of the hippocampus

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 154-163

  Rudy, Jerry W ^a   Matus Amat, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOMYCIN; MUSCIMOL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERACTIVITY; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SUBICULUM; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; GABA AGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MUSCIMOL; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 14044268194     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.1.154     Document Type: Article

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