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'Online' integration of sensory and fear memories in the rat medial temporal lobe.


ABSTRACT: How does a stimulus never associated with danger become frightening? The present study addressed this question using a sensory preconditioning task with rats. In this task, rats integrate a sound-light memory formed in stage 1 with a light-danger memory formed in stage 2, as they show fear when tested with the sound in stage 3. Here we show that this integration occurs 'online' during stage 2: when activity in the region that consolidated the sound-light memory (perirhinal cortex) was inhibited during formation of the light-danger memory, rats no longer showed fear when tested with the sound but continued to fear the light. Thus, fear that accrues to a stimulus paired with danger simultaneously spreads to its past associates, thereby roping those associates into a fear memory network.

SUBMITTER: Wong FS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6592679 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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'Online' integration of sensory and fear memories in the rat medial temporal lobe.

Wong Francesca S FS   Westbrook R Fred RF   Holmes Nathan M NM  

eLife 20190610


How does a stimulus never associated with danger become frightening? The present study addressed this question using a sensory preconditioning task with rats. In this task, rats integrate a sound-light memory formed in stage 1 with a light-danger memory formed in stage 2, as they show fear when tested with the sound in stage 3. Here we show that this integration occurs 'online' during stage 2: when activity in the region that consolidated the sound-light memory (perirhinal cortex) was inhibited  ...[more]

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