Receptive field plasticity in the auditory cortex during frequency discrimination training: selective retuning independent of task difficulty.

abstract：:Three experiments are reported whose purpose was to examine the effect of the cholinergic antagonist atropine on the acquisition of different learning tasks known to be sensitive or insensitive to impairment by hippocampal lesions; on the retention of performance acquired in the absence of the drug; and on memory cons...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hagan JJ,Tweedie F,Morris RG

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of several inbred strains of mice was assessed for ethanol's effects on activity, body temperature, ataxia, balance, and the righting reflex. Genotypic correlations among the mean responses for the strains were estimated as indexes of pleiotropic influences of genes on drug responses. Three major group...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Crabbe JC

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test whether habituation is specific to the stimulus modality, the authors analyzed cross-habituation between the tactile startle response' (TSR) and the acoustic startle response (ASR). The acoustic artifacts of airpuffs used to elicit the TSR were reduced by using a silencer and were effectively masked by backgro...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Pilz PK,Carl TD,Plappert CF

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The C. elegans mutants, lrn-1 and lrn-2, are impaired in associative learning using conditioned taste cues. Both mutants are defective in associative learning about appetitive and aversive events, indicating that lrn-1 and lrn-2 exert effects across motivational boundaries. In a new olfactory associative learning para...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Morrison GE,Wen JY,Runciman S,van der Kooy D

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified learned food aversion paradigm simulated the prolonged food and illness exposure likely to characterize nutrient deficiencies or tumor growth. In this paradigm, a continuously available food was associated with a slow, continuous infusion of LiCl provided by osmotic minipump. Significant aversions were acqu...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bernstein IL,Goehler LE

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gerbils aged 3 months and 24+ months were subjected to 5 min of global forebrain ischemia and tested in a radial arm maze (1 trial/day, 50 days). Compared with age-matched, sham-operated controls, ischemic animals were impaired on measures of both working and reference memory. Aged animals were impaired on working mem...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Schwartz C,Wishart TB,Ijaz S,Shuaib A

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Access to a running wheel combined with restricted feeding produced body weight loss at an equivalent rate in male and female litter-mate rats (Experiment 1). Thus, despite weighing less and running more, females were not more vulnerable to this procedure. When factors influencing weight loss were varied, no sex diffe...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Boakes RA,Mills KJ,Single JP

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental cues associated with drug administration elicit neural activation in circuits involved in cognitive processes and emotional regulation. An important question is whether the neural activation observed is specific to the drug-paired environment or is due to a generalized activation induced by previous drug...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Schroeder BE,Kelley AE

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiment 1 demonstrated that rats with caudate-putamen lesions show an impairment in the acquisition and reversal of a spatial maze task when compared with unoperated control subjects. Experiment 2 examined lever-press responding supported by a variable interval schedule in three groups of subjects: a group with cau...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Mitchell JA,Channell S,Hall G

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was prompted by reports of functionally normal humans with micrencephaly or cortical hypoplasia. Methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM) treatment, which induces micrencephaly in rats, was administered by injection (20 mg/kg) on gestational day 14. Prior to weaning and into adulthood, offspring were assessed on m...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Ferguson SA,Racey FD,Paule MG,Holson RR

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments measured the response-enhancing effects of oral stimulation in young rats with no feeding experience. In Experiment 1, pups were implanted with oral cannulas and deprived for 0, 6, or 24 hr. In nondeprived rats, sucrose exposure transiently sensitized oral responding to subsequent stimuli for several m...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Myers KP,Arnold HM,Hall WG

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the retrosplenial cortex (RSC) is necessary for the retrieval of remotely acquired fear to a discrete auditory cue, it is not necessary for the retrieval of recently acquired cued-fear memories. Thus, the RSC's role in memory retrieval for discrete cues is time-dependent. The purpose of the current experiment...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Todd TP,Jiang MY,DeAngeli NE,Bucci DJ

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idazoxan, an alpha 2 adrenoceptor antagonist (2 mg/kg), enhanced novel object investigation in a holeboard in rats as previously reported (V. Devauges & S. J. Sara, 1990). Two weeks of 10 min/day in 37 degrees C water increased dopamine-beta-hydroxylase staining density in the locus coeruleus but did not enhance novel...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Mansour AA,Babstock DM,Penney JH,Martin GM,McLean JH,Harley CW

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mapping studies were conducted to delineate the site(s) of action for the arousal-enhancing actions of norepinephrine (NE) within the basal forebrain region encompassing the medial preoptic area (MPOA) and the substantia innominata (SI). Varying doses of NE, the beta-agonist, isoproterenol, or the alpha1-agonist, phen...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Berridge CW,O'Neill J

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human and nonhuman adolescents have impaired retention of extinction of learned fear, relative to juveniles and adults. It is unknown whether exposure to stress affects extinction differently in adolescents versus adults. These experiments compared the short- and long-term effects of exposure to the stress-related hor...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Den ML,Altmann SR,Richardson R

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technological advances over the last decade are changing the face of behavioral neuroscience research. Here we review recent work on the use of one such transformative tool in behavioral neuroscience research, chemogenetics (or Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs, DREADDS). As transformative tec...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Smith KS,Bucci DJ,Luikart BW,Mahler SV

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between testosterone and imprinting was investigated in domestic chicks. After hatching, chicks received either testosterone enanthate in oil or oil alone (controls). The chicks were then trained by exposing them to a rotating imprinting stimulus, either a red box or a stuffed jungle fowl. A preference sc...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Bolhuis JJ,McCabe BJ,Horn G

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lesion studies have shown that the avian hippocampus plays a crucial role in homing pigeon (Columba livia) navigation. Using the expression of the immediate early gene protein ZENK in intact pigeons, the authors found regional variation in hippocampal activation as a consequence of homing and, necessarily, the behavio...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Shimizu T,Bowers AN,Budzynski CA,Kahn MC,Bingman VP

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reexamined Grigson's reward comparison hypothesis (1997), which claimed to have resolved the paradox of addictive, rewarding drugs manifesting an aversive effect in the conditioned taste aversion (CTA) paradigm. Here, the authors compared the conditioned suppression effects of lithium chloride (LiCl) and am...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Huang AC,Hsiao S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monkeys with conjoint bilateral lesions of the hippocampus and amygdala were impaired on four different tests of memory (delayed retention of object discriminations, concurrent discrimination, delayed response, and delayed nonmatching to sample). Because tests involving delays and distractions are known to be especial...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Zola-Morgan S,Squire LR

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Available evidence indicates that common genes influence alcohol and tobacco abuse in humans. The studies reported here used mouse models to evaluate the hypothesis that genetically determined variability in the alpha4beta2* nicotinic receptor modulates genetically determined variability in the intake of both nicotine...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Butt CM,King NM,Hutton SR,Collins AC,Stitzel JA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extant research findings allow several conclusions regarding the relationship between estrogen and cognitive functioning across the female life span. First, performance on tests of verbal memory fluctuates in concert with physiological changes in ovarian hormone production during the menstrual cycle and during pregnan...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Sherwin BB

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binge eating and substance dependence are disorders characterized by a loss of control over consummatory behaviors. Given the common characteristics of these two types of disorders, it is not surprising that the comorbidity between eating disorders and substance abuse disorders is high (20-40%; Conason et al., 2006). ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Puhl MD,Cason AM,Wojnicki FH,Corwin RL,Grigson PS

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditioned inhibition (CI) of the rat eyeblink response and the neuronal correlates of CI in the cerebellar interpositus nucleus were examined in the present study. In Experiment 1, CI was established with a novel, 3-group design. In Experiment 2, neuronal activity in the anterior interpositus nucleus was recorded du...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Nicholson DA,Freeman JH Jr

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-unit recording of siphon nerve activity in intact Aplysia california with chronically implanted cuff electrodes provided a monitor of activity in a central pattern generator, the Interneuron II (Int II) network, which produces large siphon and gill contractions both spontaneously and after tactile stimulation of...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Eberly LB,Pinsker HM

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A good deal is known about psychological factors that contribute to reward value, but very little is known about how reward is computed in the brain. Integration in the circuit for brain stimulation reward may provide a simple model system. Parametric studies have favored the idea that the integration is linear, altho...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Hawkins RD

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal handling induces long-lasting effects on behaviors and stress responses. The objective of the present study was to analyze the effects of neonatal handling (from the 1st to the 10th day after delivery) on the number of cells and volume of locus coeruleus (LC) nucleus in male and female rats at 4 different age...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Lucion AB,Pereira FM,Winkelman EC,Sanvitto GL,Anselmo-Franci JA

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the role of the endogenous opioid system in maternal and affiliative behavior of group-living rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) mothers with a history of abusive parenting. Eighteen mothers received an injection of the opioid antagonist naltrexone or saline for 5 days per week for the first 4 wee...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Graves FC,Wallen K,Maestripieri D

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of memory retrieval after weak learning (WL), during either the short- or intermediate-term stages of memory in day-old chickens, resulted in the strengthening of the memory to levels normally associated with strong learning. Administration of the calcium channel antagonist lanthanum chloride, the glutamate...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Summers MJ,Crowe SF,Ng KT

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transport of wheat germ agglutinin-horseradish peroxidase (WGA-HRP) from olfactory sensory neurons to the olfactory bulb as well as odor detection and discrimination were examined in rats in which each nasal epithelium had been irrigated with 0.1-0.5 ml 5% zinc sulfate. After treatment, rats showed few or no deficits ...

journal_title：Behavioral neuroscience

authors： Slotnick B,Glover P,Bodyak N

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00