Aversive-bias and stage-selectivity in neurons of the primate amygdala during acquisition, extinction, and overnight retention

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 8598-8610

  Livneh, Uri ^a   Paz, Rony ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AVERSION; BEHAVIOR; BREATHING PATTERN; HABITUATION; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SPIKE; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MACACA FASCICULARIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEURONS; ODORS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SMELL;

EID: 84862861643     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0323-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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