Single-unit firing in rat perirhinal cortex caused by fear conditioning to arbitrary and ecological stimuli

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 45, 2007, Pages 12277-12291

  Furtak, Sharon C ^a   Allen, Timothy A ^a   Brown, Thomas H ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Auditory fear conditioning; Medial temporal lobe; Temporal encoding; Timing; Ultrasonic vocalization

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CONDITIONING; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEAR; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKULL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEAR; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 36049051903     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1653-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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