Sentences with phrase «context fear conditioning»

Associative learning and memory was analyzed in a context fear conditioning paradigm (Figure 3E).

Those mice were unsuccessful with context fear conditioning, but they did as well as wild - type mice when they were treated with memantine.

To get a grasp of the proteins involved in a particular learning process, the investigators studied context fear conditioning in mice.

Context fear conditioning demands that the hippocampus, a region of the brain important for memory formation, be functional.

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Fearing objects or contexts can be learned; in animals this is being studied as fear conditioning, which depends on the emotional circuitry of the brain.

In contextual fear conditioning, experimental subjects are placed in an emotionally neutral context (such as a room) and presented an aversive stimulus (such as an electrical shock).

The hippocampus and the amygdala are required for fear memory where the hippocampus is involved in the formation and retrieval of context fear associations and the amygdala is involved in conditioning and recall of associations to contextual and discrete cues [18, 19].

The read - out that is measured in contextual and cued fear conditioning is a freezing response that occurs following the pairing of an unconditioned stimulus (US), such as a foot shock, with a conditioned stimulus (CS), such as a particular context or cue (tone)[15 — 17].

The readout that is measured in contextual and cued fear conditioning is a freezing response that occurs following the pairing of an unconditioned stimulus such as a foot shock, with a conditioned stimulus such as a particular context or cue (tone).