Conditioning- and time-dependent increases in context fear and generalization

Learning and Memory

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 379-385

  Poulos, Andrew M ^a,b   Mehta, Nehali ^b   Lu, Bryan ^b   Amir, Dorsa ^b   Livingston, Briana ^b   Santarelli, Anthony ^a   Zhuravka, Irina ^b   Fanselow, Michael S ^b,c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEAR CONDITIONING TEST; FOOTSHOCK; FREEZING; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION; ANIMAL; ELECTRIC SHOCK; LONG EVANS RAT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MENTAL STRESS; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; ELECTROSHOCK; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84978405345     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.041400.115     Document Type: Article

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