Contextual fear conditioning is disrupted by lesions of the subcortical, but not entorhinal, connections to the hippocampus.
Recent studies have questioned the importance of the entorhinal cortex (ERC) for normal hippocampal function. For example, fibre-sparing ERC lesions have been found to have no effect on spatial learning in the watermaze. There is also doubt as to the importance of the ERC for contextual fear conditi...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2001
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