1 School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
2 Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
3 School of Biomedical Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Orange, NSW, Australia.
4 School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia n.holmes@unsw.edu.au.

This study examined the effect of danger on consolidation of neutral information in two regions of the rat (male and female) medial temporal lobe: the perirhinal cortex (PRh) and basolateral amygdala complex (BLA). The neutral information was the association that forms between an auditory stimulus and a visual stimulus (labeled S2 and S1) across their pairings in sensory preconditioning. We show that, when the sensory preconditioning session is followed by a shocked context exposure, the danger...