Contextual Fear Learning and Extinction in the Primary Visual Cortex of Mice

The sexually divergent cFos activation map of fear extinction

“…Pavlovian fear conditioning is a commonly used paradigm in fear memory research [ [9] , [10] , [11] , [12] , [15] , [16] , [17] , [18] , [19] , [20] , [21] , [22] , [23] ]. This paradigm involves pairing a neutral stimulus with a threatening stimulus to create a conditioned response (CR), mimicking the process of fear memory acquisition [ 13 , 17 , 20 , 22 , 24 ].…”