Blockade of Stimulus Convergence in Amygdala Neurons Disrupts Taste Associative Learning

Humans and non-human animals learn associations of temporally contingent stimuli to better cope with the changing environment. In animal models of classical conditioning, a neutral conditioned stimulus (CS) predicts an aversive unconditioned stimulus (US). Several lines of indirect evidence indicate...

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Main Authors: Hashikawa, K., Naka, Masamitsu, Nakayama, D., Matsumoto, N., Matsuki, N., Neve, Rachael L.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Society for Neuroscience 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81323
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3854-5968