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SUBMITTER: Mitchell JR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9291203 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mitchell Julia R JR Trettel Sean G SG Li Anna J AJ Wasielewski Sierra S Huckleberry Kylie A KA Fanikos Michaela M Golden Emily E Laine Mikaela A MA Shansky Rebecca M RM
Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) 20220616 7
Pavlovian fear conditioning is a widely used behavioral paradigm for studying associative learning in rodents. Despite early recognition that subjects may engage in a variety of both conditioned and unconditioned responses, the last several decades have seen the field narrow its focus to measure freezing as the sole indicator of conditioned fear. We previously reported that female rats were more likely than males to engage in darting, an escape-like conditioned response that is associated with h ...[more]