A different recruitment of the lateral and basolateral amygdala promotes contextual or elemental conditioned association in Pavlovian fear conditioning

Learning and Memory

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 383-388

  Calandreau, Ludovic ^a   Desmedt, Aline ^a   Decorte, Laurence ^a   Jaffard, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX RECRUITMENT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROINJECTIONS;

EID: 23744467051     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.92305     Document Type: Article

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