Describe in detail, and drawing on multiple lectures from the course, what would happen in the following scenario: A mouse starts out not freezing at the sound of a bell, but then the bell is rung at about the same time that the mouse is given a foot shock, which naturally makes it freeze.

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Describe in detail, and drawing on multiple lectures from the course, what would happen in the following scenario: A mouse starts out not freezing at the sound of a bell, but then the bell is rung at about the same time that the mouse is given a foot shock, which naturally makes it freeze. After this pairing, the mouse then starts to freeze at the sound of the bell alone.
Start by describing the events that allow the mouse to be sensitive to the shock and to freeze in response to it, including the role of the amygdala and the sensory processing by the somatosensory system. Then describe what happens in the mouse’s nervous system when it hears the bell in general (i.e., how it processes the sound of the bell prior to the first shock) . Next, describe the changes that occur in the amygdala to cause the sound of the bell to stimulate freezing; describe these changes both in terms of the firing of action potentials, and in terms of what happens at an even finer level involving neurotransmitter receptors and LTP. Be thorough and clear in your answer!

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