Central and basolateral amygdala neurons crash the aversive conditioning party: Theoretical comment on Rorick-Kehn and Steinmetz (2005). Academic Article

abstract

• Rorick-Kehn and Steinmetz (2005) report that neurons in the central and basolateral nuclei of the amygdala exhibit learning-related spike firing to conditional stimuli associated with shock in 3 different aversive conditioning paradigms: eyeblink conditioning, fear conditioning, and signaled avoidance conditioning. Central nucleus neurons responded in all 3 tasks, whereas basolateral nucleus neurons were more activated by fear and avoidance conditioning. These results reveal that amygdala neurons are differentially engaged by aversive conditioning, but questions remain concerning the associative basis and functional role for these unit responses. Copyright 2005 by the American Psychological Association.

authors

• Maren, Stephen

published proceedings

• Behav Neurosci

author list (cited authors)

• Maren, S.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• Maren, Stephen

publication date

• October 2005

publisher

• American Psychological Association (APA)  Publisher

published in

• BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE  Journal

keywords

• Amygdala
• Animals
• Avoidance Learning
• Behavior, Animal
• Conditioning, Classical
• Fear
• Models, Biological
• Neurons

PubMed Central ID

• 16300448

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1037/0735-7044.119.5.1406

start page

• 1406

end page

• 1410

volume

• 119

issue

• 5

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0735-7044.119.5.1406