Figure 6.

Contextual fear conditioning. When contextual fear learning was assessed 24 h after conditioning, low LG animals showed significantly greater freezing in the conditioned context than high LG animals in the hippocampal-dependent version of the task (i.e., the situation where animals were allowed to form a spatial representation of the shock environment). However, maternal care did not influence the levels of freezing observed among animals conditioned in the hippocampal-independent/brief preshock interval version of the task (*p < 0.05).