Psychological and neural mechanisms of experimental extinction: A selective review

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 108, Issue , 2014, Pages 38-51

  Delamater, Andrew R ^a,b   Westbrook, R Frederick ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Attention; Contents of extinction learning; Erasure; Infralimbic prefrontal cortex; Prediction errors; Rescorla Wagner model

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALA; ATTENTION; CONTENTS OF EXTINCTION LEARNING; ERASURE; INFRALIMBIC PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREDICTION ERRORS; RESCORLA-WAGNER MODEL;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MICE; RATS;

EID: 84893756675     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.09.016     Document Type: Review

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