Design of a Neurally Plausible Model of Fear Learning

Overview

Journal Front Behav Neurosci

Specialty Psychology

Date 2011 Aug 17

PMID 21845175

Citations 27

Authors

Franklin B Krasne

Michael S Fanselow

Moriel Zelikowsky

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Abstract

A neurally oriented conceptual and computational model of fear conditioning manifested by freezing behavior (FRAT), which accounts for many aspects of delay and context conditioning, has been constructed. Conditioning and extinction are the result of neuromodulation-controlled LTP at synapses of thalamic, cortical, and hippocampal afferents on principal cells and inhibitory interneurons of lateral and basal amygdala. The phenomena accounted for by the model (and simulated by the computational version) include conditioning, secondary reinforcement, blocking, the immediate shock deficit, extinction, renewal, and a range of empirically valid effects of pre- and post-training ablation or inactivation of hippocampus or amygdala nuclei.

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