Neuronal responses of the rat amygdala during extinction and reassociation learning in elementary and configural associative tasks

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 753-768

  Toyomitsu, Yuji ^b   Nishijo, Hisao ^a,c   Uwano, Teruko ^a,c   Kuratsu, Junichi ^b   Ono, Taketoshi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Associative learning; Instrumental behaviour; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; LEARNING; LICKING; LIGHT; MALE; MOUTH; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPROUT; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAINING; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; REWARD; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 18744363610     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.01889.x     Document Type: Article

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