Perirhinal Cortex Supports Delay Fear Conditioning to Rat Ultrasonic Social Signals

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 3610-3617

  Lindquist, Derick H ^a   Jarrard, Leonard E ^b   Brown, Thomas H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Fear conditioning; Freezing; Medial temporal lobe; Perirhinal cortex; Ultrasonic vocalization

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FREEZING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 1842732213     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4839-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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