CA3 NMDA Receptors are Required for the Rapid Formation of a Salient Contextual Representation

The acquisition of Pavlovian fear learning engages the hippocampus when the conditioned stimuli are multimodal or temporally isolated from the unconditioned stimuli. By subjecting CA3-NR1 KO mice to conditioning protocols that incorporate time-dependent components, we found that the loss of plastici...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: McHugh, Thomas J., Tonegawa, Susumu
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Wiley Blackwell 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74649
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2839-8228