Contexts surround and imbue meaning to events; they are essential for recollecting the past,
interpreting the present and anticipating the future. Indeed, the brain's capacity to …

Context is an ever-present combination of discrete environmental elements capable of
influencing many psychological processes. When context is associated with an aversive …

Contextual fear conditioning is an important behavioral paradigm for studying the
neurobiology of learning and memory and the mnemonic function of the hippocampus. We …

Human context conditioning studies have focused on acquisition and extinction. Subsequent
long-term changes in fear behaviors not only depend on associative learning processes …

Functional imaging studies of cued fear conditioning in humans have mostly confirmed
findings in animals, but it is unclear whether the brain mechanisms that underlie contextual …

This review examines the relationship between exploration and contextual fear conditioning.
The fear acquired to places or contexts associated with aversive events is a form of …

Memories for context become less specific with time resulting in animals generalizing fear
from training contexts to novel contexts. Though much attention has been given to the neural …

The generalization of fear is an adaptive, behavioral, and physiological response to the
likelihood of threat in the environment. In contrast, the overgeneralization of fear, a cardinal …

Over the past years, numerous studies have provided a clear understanding of the neuronal
circuits and mechanisms involved in the formation, expression and extinction phases of …

Extinction depends, at least partly, on new learning that is specific to the context in which it is
learned. Several behavioral phenomena (renewal, reinstatement, spontaneous recovery …