A preregistered, direct replication attempt of the retrieval-extinction effect in cued fear conditioning in rats

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 144, Issue , 2017, Pages 208-215

  Luyten, Laura ^a   Beckers, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Behavioral updating; Cued fear conditioning; Post retrieval amnesia; Reconsolidation; Replication; Retrieval extinction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR CONDITIONING TEST; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROCEDURAL MEMORY; RAT; RECOVERY TIME CONSTANT; RETRIEVAL EXTINCTION PROCEDURE; TRAINING; ANIMAL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEAR; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 85026894710     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2017.07.014     Document Type: Article

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