Amygdala central nucleus function is necessary for learning, but not expression, of conditioned auditory orienting

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 202-212

  Groshek, Frank ^a   Kerfoot, Erin ^a   McKenna, Vanessa ^a   Polackwich, Alan S ^a   Gallagher, Michela ^a   Holland, Peter C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING REFLEX; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; LEARNING; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 14044272187     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.1.202     Document Type: Article

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