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Neck Electromyography Is an Effective Measure of Fear Behavior by Hendrik W. Steenland; Min Zhuo is a Neuroscience article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Neck Electromyography Is an Effective Measure of Fear Behavior about?
Conventional methodology for examining conditioned fear has involved visual-based technologies such as cameras and direct observation. These methods are excellent screening tools of fear behavior (i.e. freezing). However, they do not provide a physiological output, which could be useful to examine neurophysiological correlates of fear. We found that dorsal neck electromyography can be used as a method to score fear behavior and is as effective as visual-based scoring. Since electromyogram is a physiological measure it can be used in either the light or dark to score freezing behavior, without use of any camera or visual observation. We also show that electromyogram-based scoring methodologies, in conjunction with electroencephalogram, are useful to discriminate fear from sleep.
Who reads Neck Electromyography Is an Effective Measure of Fear Behavior?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Neuroscience.
- Author
- Hendrik W. Steenland; Min Zhuo
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0165-0270)
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Neuroscience (Life Sciences)