Effects of recent exposure to a conditioned stimulus on extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning

Learning and Memory

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 512-521

  Chan, Wan Yee Macy ^a   Leung, Hiu T ^a   Westbrook, R Frederick ^a   McNally, Gavan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 78649576619     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.1912510     Document Type: Article

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