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Direct linkCalandreau, Ludovic; Desmedt, Aline; Decorte, Laurence; Jaffard, Robert – Learning & Memory, 2005
Convergent data suggest dissociated roles for the lateral (LA) and basolateral (BLA) amygdaloid nuclei in fear conditioning, depending on whether a discrete conditioned stimulus (CS)-unconditional stimulus (US) or context-US association is considered. Here, we show that pretraining inactivation of the BLA selectively impaired conditioning to…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Fear, Classical Conditioning, Context Effect
