We wish to address is whether cells we have tentatively identified as cued fear conditioning cells increase their responses to the CS because the synapses between CS-representing neurons and the conditioning cells are subject to LTP. If this is in fact the case, would you expect these cells to respond to a US priorto conditioning? (a) yes (b) no
At first the response would probably be very weak or faint and not very detectable. After sometime the connection may become stronger and thus more recognizable.
