Understanding the contributions of visual stimuli to contextual fear conditioning: A proof-of-concept study using LCD screens

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• 作者：Nathen J. Murawski ; ^a ; ¹ ; ^{nathenmurawski@gmail.com} ; Arun Asok^b ; ^c ; ¹
• 关键词：CPFE ; context pre-exposure facilitation effect ; LCD ; liquid-crystal display ; dCtx ; digital context ; AC ; alternating current ; CS ; conditional stimulus ; US ; unconditional stimulus ; Pre ; pre-exposure ; No Pre ; no pre-exposure ; ANOVA ; analysis of variance
• 刊名：Neuroscience Letters
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：10 January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：637
• 期：Complete
• 页码：80-84
• 全文大小：809 K
• 卷排序：637

文摘

Features of a context may differentially contribute to the CS-US representation in contextual fear conditioning. Visual information from an environment may statistically contribute to contextual fear learning. LCD monitors can be readily incorporated to current fear conditioning protocols in order to precisely control visual stimuli of contexts.