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Tomas G Aquino1,2, Hristos Courellis3, Adam N Mamelak4

  • 1Department of Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048 tg2863@columbia.edu.

The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience
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Keywords:
Pavlovian conditioningReinforcement learningamygdalahuman single neuronsintracranial recordingsvmPFC

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