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Corcoran, Kevin A.; Maren, Stephen – Learning & Memory, 2004
After extinction of fear to a Pavlovian conditional stimulus (CS), contextual stimuli come to regulate the expression of fear to that CS. There is growing evidence that the context dependence of memory retrieval after extinction involves the hippocampus. In the present experiment, we examine whether hippocampal involvement in memory retrieval…
Descriptors: Neurological Organization, Classical Conditioning, Memory, Testing
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Rhodes, Sarah E. V.; Kilcross, Simon – Learning & Memory, 2004
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) has a well-established role in the inhibition of inappropriate responding, and evidence suggests that the infralimbic (IL) region of the rat medial PFC (MPFC) may be involved in some aspects of extinction of conditioned fear. MPFC lesions including, but not those sparing the IL cortex increase spontaneous recovery of…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Neurological Organization, Brain, Behavioral Science Research