Fear Conditioning
Precise shock delivery with tone/light CS pairing, automated freezing triggers, and multi-context chamber reconfiguration. ConductMaze handles TTL-synchronized stimulus timing at millisecond precision.
Contextual Fear Conditioning
Contextual fear conditioning is a Pavlovian learning paradigm in which an animal associates an environmental context — the constellation of visual, olfactory, tactile, and spatial cues in the conditioning chamber — with an aversive unconditioned stimulus (US), typically a mild foot shock.
8 parametersCued Fear Conditioning
Cued (or auditory/tone) fear conditioning is a Pavlovian paradigm in which an explicit conditioned stimulus (CS) — typically a pure tone or a light — is paired with a foot shock unconditioned stimulus (US).
8 parametersFear Extinction
Fear extinction is the progressive reduction of a conditioned fear response that occurs when the conditioned stimulus (CS) is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus (US).
7 parametersLearned Helplessness
Learned helplessness (LH) is a behavioral phenomenon in which prior exposure to inescapable and uncontrollable stress — typically repeated foot shocks — produces subsequent deficits in escape learning when the animal is later given the opportunity to avoid or escape identical shocks.
8 parametersTrace Fear Conditioning
Trace fear conditioning introduces a stimulus-free temporal gap (trace interval) between the offset of the conditioned stimulus (CS, typically a tone) and the onset of the unconditioned stimulus (US, footshock).
10 parametersDiscriminative Fear Conditioning
Discriminative fear conditioning trains subjects to differentiate between a CS+ (paired with footshock) and a CS- (explicitly unpaired), assessing the ability to form selective threat associations while inhibiting fear responses to safety signals.
10 parametersFear Renewal
Fear renewal demonstrates that extinguished conditioned fear returns when the subject is tested in the original conditioning context (ABA renewal) or in a novel context different from the extinction context (ABC renewal).
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