During a fear conditioning task, rats with damage to the hippocampus show normal fear responses to the ________ but not the __________.
A) conditioned stimulus; contextual cues
B) contextual cues; conditioned stimulus
C) conditioned stimulus; unconditioned stimulus
D) contextual cues; emotional cues

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Rats with hippocampal damage show normal fear responses to the conditioned stimulus (such as a tone) but have difficulty associating fear with the contextual cues (such as the environment where the conditioning took place) because the hippocampus is crucial for encoding contextual and spatial information.

During a Fear Conditioning Task, Rats with Damage to the Hippocampus