In search for boundary conditions of reconsolidation: A failure of fear memory interference

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Schroyens, Natalie ^a,b   Beckers, Tom ^a,b   Kindt, Merel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Contextual novelty; Destabilization; Fear memory; Reconsolidation

Indexed keywords

PROPRANOLOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEAR-POTENTIATED STARTLE TEST; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL;

EID: 85018302750     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00065     Document Type: Article

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