Predator odor fear conditioning: Current perspectives and new directions

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1218-1227

  Takahashi, Lorey K ^a   Chan, Megan M ^a   Pilar, Mark L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Predator odor auditory fear conditioning; Predator odor conditioned fear; Predator odor contextual fear conditioning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CAT; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; EMOTION; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; HEARING; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PREDATOR ODOR FEAR CONDITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CATS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; ODORS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RATS; SMELL;

EID: 50849111413     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.06.001     Document Type: Review

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