image: A naturalistic approach food-avoid predator paradigm. Neural activities were recorded from the amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex while the hungry rat foraged for food before (top), during (middle), and after (bottom) a predatory robot encounter. During the robot trials, each time the animal came near the food, the programmed robot surged causing the animal to escape to a safe nest. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 18 April 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by E.J. Kim at University of Washington in Seattle, Wash., and colleagues was titled, "Dynamic coding of predatory information between the prelimbic cortex and lateral amygdala in foraging rats." view more
Credit: [Credit: Kim et al., <i>Sci. Adv</i>. 2018;4: eaar7328]