Changes in Heart Rate Variability Are Associated with Expression of Short-Term and Long-Term Contextual and Cued Fear Memories

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Jun ^a,c   Wei, Wei ^a,c   Kuang, Hui ^b,c   Zhao, Fang ^b,c   Tsien, Joe Z ^b,c  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Banna Biomedical Research Institute   (China)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUED FEAR CONDITIONING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEART BEAT; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; RECALL; RESPONSE TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEAR; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HEART RATE; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL;

EID: 84877145536     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063590     Document Type: Article

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