Amygdala's involvement in facilitating associative learning-induced plasticity: A promiscuous role for the amygdala in memory acquisition

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEPTEMBER, 2012, Pages

  Chau, Lily S ^a   Galvez, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Eyeblink conditioning; Fear conditioning; Inhibitory avoidance; Neocortex; Pavlovian conditioning; Thalamic reticular nucleus

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYELID REFLEX; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; MEMORY; MEMORY ACQUISITION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS RETICULAR NUCLEUS;

EID: 84867060346     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00092     Document Type: Review

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