Fear conditioning by-proxy: Social transmission of fear during memory retrieval

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 80-84

  Bruchey, Aleksandra K ^a   Jones, Carolyn E ^a   Monfils, Marie H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fear conditioning; Memory retrieval; Observational learning; Social transmission of fear

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FOOTSHOCK; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; PSYCHOLOGY; RECALL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77955054591     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.04.047     Document Type: Article

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