A novel AX+/BX- paradigm to assess fear learning and safety-signal processing with repeated-measure designs

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 177-183

  Kazama, Andy M ^a   Schauder, Kimberly B ^a   McKinnon, Michael ^a   Bachevalier, Jocelyne ^a   Davis, Michael ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Conditioned inhibition; Emotion regulation; Fear; Post traumatic stress disorder; Rhesus macaque; Safety signal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; RODENT; SAFETY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; FEAR; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 84874426486     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2013.01.022     Document Type: Article

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