Basolateral amygdala nucleus responses to appetitive conditioned stimuli correlate with variations in conditioned behaviour

Neurons in the basolateral amygdala show increased response to conditioned stimuli predicting rewards. Here the authors show that their activity is not correlated with the reward-predicting stimulus but rather with the conditioned behaviour.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Seung-Chan Lee, Alon Amir, Drew B. Headley, Darrell Haufler, Denis Pare
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12275