Updating temporal expectancy of an aversive event engages striatal plasticity under amygdala control

Aversive conditioning requires the learning of time intervals between conditioned and unconditioned stimuli, as well as the associations of the stimuli themselves. Here the authors show that dorsal striatum and basal amygdala are part of a functional network that encodes interval timing.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Glenn Dallérac, Michael Graupner, Jeroen Knippenberg, Raquel Chacon Ruiz Martinez, Tatiane Ferreira Tavares, Lucille Tallot, Nicole El Massioui, Anna Verschueren, Sophie Höhn, Julie Boulanger Bertolus, Alex Reyes, Joseph E. LeDoux, Glenn E. Schafe, Lorenzo Diaz-Mataix, Valérie Doyère
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13920