Contextual fear conditioning in humans using feature-identical contexts

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 121, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-11

  Baeuchl, Christian ^a,b   Meyer, Patric ^a,b   Hoppstädter, Michael ^a,b   Diener, Carsten ^a,b,c   Flor, Herta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neurosciences   (Germany)

^c SRH UNIVERSITY HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Context; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Hippocampus; Psychophysiological interaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTEXTUAL FEAR CONDITIONING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INSULA; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SUPERIOR MEDIAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925437409     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2015.03.001     Document Type: Article

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