Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Updating temporal expectancy of an aversive event engages striatal plasticity under amygdala control

  • Glenn Dallérac,
  • Michael Graupner,
  • Jeroen Knippenberg,
  • Raquel Chacon Ruiz Martinez,
  • Tatiane Ferreira Tavares,
  • Lucille Tallot,
  • Nicole El Massioui,
  • Anna Verschueren,
  • Sophie Höhn,
  • Julie Boulanger Bertolus,
  • Alex Reyes,
  • Joseph E. LeDoux,
  • Glenn E. Schafe,
  • Lorenzo Diaz-Mataix,
  • Valérie Doyère

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13920
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Aversive conditioning requires the learning of time intervals between conditioned and unconditioned stimuli, as well as the associations of the stimuli themselves. Here the authors show that dorsal striatum and basal amygdala are part of a functional network that encodes interval timing.