The RUB cage: Respiration-Ultrasonic vocalizations-Behavior acquisition set-up for assessing emotional memory in rats
In animals, emotional memory is classically assessed through pavlovian fear conditioning in which a neutral novel stimulus (conditioned stimulus) is paired with an aversive unconditioned stimulus. After conditioning, the conditioned stimulus elicits a fear response characterized by a wide range of b...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2011-05-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2011.00025/full |