Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

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

  • Seung-Chan Lee,
  • Alon Amir,
  • Drew B. Headley,
  • Darrell Haufler,
  • Denis Pare

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12275
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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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.