A Behavioral Analysis of the Role of CA3 and CA1 Subcortical Efferents During Classical Fear Conditioning

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 624-630

  Hunsaker, Michael R ^a   Tran, Giang T ^a   Kesner, Raymond P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

classical fear conditioning; dorsal fornix; fimbria; hippocampus; septum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPAL FIMBRIA; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECALL; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FORNIX, BRAIN; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEPTUM OF BRAIN;

EID: 66349099422     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015455     Document Type: Article

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