The expression of fear-potentiated startle during development: Integration of learning and response systems

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 861-872

  Barnet, Robert C ^a   Hunt, Pamela S ^a  

^a William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned fear; Freezing; Ontogeny; Rat; Response systems

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; FEAR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; LEARNING; MALE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 33747361769     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.4.861     Document Type: Article

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