AUTHOR=Johnson Luke R., LeDoux Joseph , Doyere Valerie TITLE=Hebbian Reverberations in Emotional Memory Micro Circuits JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neuroscience VOLUME=Volume 3 - 2009 YEAR=2009 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/neuro.01.027.2009 DOI=10.3389/neuro.01.027.2009 ISSN=1662-453X ABSTRACT=The study of memory in most behavioral paradigms, including emotional memory paradigms, has focused on the feed forward components that underlie Hebb’s first postulate, associative synaptic plasticity. Hebb’s second postulate argues that activated ensembles of neurons reverberate in order to provide temporal coordination of different neural signals, and thereby facilitate coincidence detection. Recent evidence from our groups has suggested that the lateral amygdala (LA) contains recurrent microcircuits and that these may reverberate. Additionally this reverberant activity is precisely timed with latencies that would facilitate coincidence detection between cortical and sub cortical afferents to the LA. Thus, recent data at the microcircuit level in the amygdala provide some physiological evidence in support of the second Hebbian postulate.