Interdependence of measures in Pavlovian conditioned freezing

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 505, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 134-139

  Wood, Suzanne C ^a   Anagnostaras, Stephan G ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical conditioning; Learning; Memory; Mice; Pavlovian fear conditioning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTEXTUAL FEAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PAVLOVIAN CONDITIONED FREEZING; POST SHOCK FREEZING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TONE BASELINE; TONE FEAR; TRAINING BASELINE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RADIATION CHIMERA;

EID: 81055157604     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.10.006     Document Type: Article

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