Pairing a previously neutral conditioned stimulus (CS; e.g., a tone) to an aversive unconditioned stimulus (US; e.g., a foot-shock) leads to associative learning such that the tone alone will elicit a ...
Laboratory rats listening to a tone that had been paired with shock. Control rats (top) froze with fear but rats injected with brain-derived neurotrophic factor (bottom) were not afraid, continuing to ...
Social interactions during adolescence are important especially for neuronal development and behavior. We recently showed that positive emotions induced by repeated tickling could modulate ...