Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

A neuronal basis for fear discrimination in the lateral amygdala

  • Anna Grosso,
  • Giulia Santoni,
  • Eugenio Manassero,
  • Annamaria Renna,
  • Benedetto Sacchetti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03682-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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When perceiving new stimuli, organisms need to distinguish between threats versus harmless stimuli. Here, the authors find a set of cells in the lateral amygdala that is required to discriminate or generalize new auditory stimuli based on similarity to previously fear-associate sounds.