Neurotoxic Lesions of Retrosplenial Cortex Disrupt Signaled and Unsignaled Contextual Fear Conditioning

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1070-1077

  Keene, Christopher S ^a   Bucci, David J ^a  

^a Dartmouth College

Author keywords

associative learning; aversive; corticohippocampal; memory; posterior cingulate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONDITIONING; FEAR; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEUROTOXINS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 54049109724     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012895     Document Type: Article

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