CA3 NMDA Receptors are Required for the Rapid Formation of a Salient Contextual Representation
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McHugh, Thomas J.
Tonegawa, Susumu
Date Issued
July 2009
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Hippocampus
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Wiley Blackwell
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McHugh, Thomas J., and Susumu Tonegawa. “CA3 NMDA Receptors Are Required for the Rapid Formation of a Salient Contextual Representation.” Hippocampus 19.12 (2009): 1153–1158.
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Abstract
The acquisition of Pavlovian fear learning engages the hippocampus when the conditioned stimuli are multimodal or temporally isolated from the unconditioned stimuli. By subjecting CA3-NR1 KO mice to conditioning protocols that incorporate time-dependent components, we found that the loss of plasticity at recurrent CA3 synapses resulted in a deficits in contextual conditioning specifically when the exposure to the context was brief or when the unconditioned stimulus was signaled with a competing, predictive unimodal stimulus. Our results suggest CA3 contributes both speed and salience to contextual processing and support the theory of competition between multimodal and unimodal conditioned stimuli for associative learning.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics
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https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.20684
