Retrieval per se is not sufficient to trigger reconsolidation of human fear memory

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 338-345

  Sevenster, Dieuwke ^a   Beckers, Tom ^a,b   Kindt, Merel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fear conditioning; Human fear memory; Plasticity; Prediction error; Propranolol ( blocker); Reconsolidation

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PROPRANOLOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; REINFORCEMENT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STARTLE REFLEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; ELECTROSHOCK; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; PROPRANOLOL;

EID: 84859163937     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2012.01.009     Document Type: Article

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