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. (Author), Naka, Masamitsu (Author), Nakayama, D. (Author), Matsumoto, N. (Author), Matsuki, N. (Author), Neve, Rachael L. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), Picower Institute for Learning and Memory (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Neuroscience, 2013-10-04T16:44:58Z.
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