Auditory trace fear conditioning requires perirhinal cortex

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 537-543

  Kholodar Smith, D B ^a   Boguszewski, P ^a   Brown, T H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory objects; Context conditioning; Discontiguous information; Parahippocampal; Ultrasonic vocalizations

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUTOMATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 51349084895     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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