Ventral Hippocampus Projections to Prelimbic Cortex Support Contextual Fear Memory
Alexandra O. Cohen, Heidi C. Meyer
Abstract
Learning from and remembering salient features of the environment is essential for survival. Fear conditioning is a well studied experimental model that can be used to delineate the neural mechanisms through which cued and contextual components of associative learning contribute to fear memory.
Topics & Concepts
Infralimbic cortexFear conditioningNeuroscienceHippocampusPsychologyCued speechContextual learningAssociative learningCognitive psychologyAssociative propertyFear processing in the brainExtinction (optical mineralogy)Prefrontal cortexCognitionAmygdalaBiologyMathematicsPedagogyPure mathematicsPaleontologyMemory and Neural MechanismsNeuroscience and Neuropharmacology ResearchAnesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research