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Carolyn E Jones1, Marie-H Monfils1
1Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, A8000 Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Trends in Neurosciences
|January 19, 2016
Abstract:
Pavlovian fear conditioning is one of the most common and well-understood methods for studying fear learning. However, research is predominantly performed in males. Recently, in a classical Pavlovian fear conditioning paradigm, Gruene and colleagues described an active conditioned fear response ('darting') prevalent in female rats that better maintain an extinction memory.