The mutant mice performed normally in contextual fear conditioning, but were impaired in the ability to distinguish two similar contexts. (science.sciencemag.org)
On day 3, contextual fear conditioning was evaluated by placing the animals in the chamber during 8 min. (actaneurocomms.biomedcentral.com)
Cho explained that the acquisition (encoding) and retrieval of contextual fear memory requires coordinated neural activity in the hippocampus, amygdala and mPFC. (sciencedaily.com)