The accurate measurement of fear memory in Pavlovian conditioning: Resolving the baseline issue

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 235-239

  Jacobs, Nathan S ^a   Cushman, Jesse D ^a   Fanselow, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory fear conditioning; Learning and memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; C57BL MOUSE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ELECTRIC SHOCK; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PROCEDURES; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954216162     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.04.029     Document Type: Article

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