Entorhinal cortex lesions disrupt fear conditioning to background context but spare fear conditioning to a tone in the rat

Hippocampus

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 114-124

  Majchrzak, Monique ^a   Ferry, B ^a   Marchand, A R ^a   Herbeaux, K ^a   Seillier, A ^a   Barbelivien, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Conditioned freezing; Contextual fear; Parahippocampal area; Rat; Tone CS

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXCITOTOXICITY; EXPOSURE; FEAR; FREEZING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; SHOCK; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FEAR; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 33645086396     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20138     Document Type: Article

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