abstract：:This study is part of an ongoing project concerned with the analysis of the neural substrates of discriminative avoidance learning in rabbits. Multi-unit activity was recorded in 5 anterior and lateral thalamic nuclei and in 4 layers of 2 posterior cingulate cortical areas (29c/d and 29b) during learning. The rabbits ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Gabriel M,Vogt BA,Kubota Y,Poremba A,Kang E

更新日期：1991-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether local neurons mediated the locomotor effects of electrical stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus, kainic acid injections (0.5-1.25 micrograms), intended to destroy neural somata as opposed to fibers of passage, were made unilaterally in the tuberal-posterior hypothalamus of 22 rats. The area of ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Sinnamon HM,Marciello M,Goerner DW

更新日期：1991-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments are presented which used a dual-task interference procedure to examine the temporal locus of lateral transfer of training. In Experiment 1, 120 undergraduates practised a sequential tapping task with either the left or the right hand, and then switched to the opposite, untrained hand for the test trial...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Parlow SE,Dewey D

更新日期：1991-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The direction and degree of paw preference was studied in male and female mice from the C3H/He, C3H/OuJIco and New Zealand Black (NZB) strains, using the method previously described by Collins. All the populations of mice tested exhibited a low degree of lateralization, which varied among strains: NZB mice were more s...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Betancur C,Neveu PJ,Le Moal M

更新日期：1991-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal trigeminal nucleus pars oralis (SpoV) is anatomically linked to brain circuitry thought to subserve unconditioned and conditioned nictitating membrane responses in rabbit. Single-unit recording from SpoV and adjacent reticular formation obtained during conditioning from awake, behaving animals revealed modulati...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Richards WG,Ricciardi TN,Moore JW

更新日期：1991-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to investigate the possible role of perinatal androgens acting via the androgen receptor, as opposed to the estrogen receptor, for the differentiation of adult mounting and lordosis behavior in female rats. Female Wistar (W) and Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were exposed to the anti-androgen ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Brand T,Slob AK

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a stereotaxic technique to transect the optic chiasm in the rat and present illustrative data on the interocular transfer of visual discrimination in chiasm-sectioned and chiasm-plus-forebrain commissure-sectioned animals. Applications of the technique are discussed. ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Crowne DP,Novotny MF,Steele Russell I

更新日期：1991-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous work provided evidence that hippocampal opioid peptides form an important neurochemical substrate underlying the gene-dependent exploratory behavior of mice. A prominent hippocampal opioid is dynorphin B, which resides in the mossy fibers exclusively. In order to seek support for causal relationships betw...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： van Daal JH,Herbergs PJ,Crusio WE,Schwegler H,Jenks BG,Lemmens WA,van Abeelen JH

更新日期：1991-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study demonstrates that an abbreviated regimen of ganglioside treatments attenuates the behavioral impairments produced by unilateral lesions of the entorhinal cortex. Ganglioside treatments not only accelerate recovery of learned alternation on a Y-maze, but also reduce total errors and perseverative erro...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Ramirez JJ,Fass-Holmes B,Karpiak SE,Harshbarger R,Zengel D,Wright P,Valbuena M

更新日期：1991-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were trained in a two-way active avoidance task followed immediately by a lateral hypothalamic intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS) treatment, during 5 consecutive days. The effects of the number of ICSS trains allowed (0, 500, 2500 or 4500) were studied upon acquisition and long-term retention (LTR, 10 and 30 da...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Segura-Torres P,Portell-Cortés I,Morgado-Bernal I

更新日期：1991-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of bilateral radiofrequency lesions in the region of the entorhinal and piriform cortex (ENT/PIR cortex) on pup-retrieving and ultrasound-elicited pup-searching behavior were investigated in ovariectomized estrogen-treated female mice, which were sensitized to pups by co-caring for a litter for 5 days toge...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Koch M,Ehret G

更新日期：1991-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of cardiac and respiratory activity during mental simulation of locomotion at increasing speed revealed a covariation of heart rate and pulmonary ventilation with the degree of imagined effort. The degree of vegetative activation of a subject mentally running at 12 km/h was comparable to that of a subject ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Decety J,Jeannerod M,Germain M,Pastene J

更新日期：1991-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We analysed the execution of multijoint pointing movements in humans while weight or spring loads were applied to the pointing hand. Visual feedback on arm and hand position was excluded. Movement paths, final positions, and normalized velocity profiles were found to be load-independent, except for the very first move...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Bock O

更新日期：1990-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The avian hippocampal formation has been proposed to play a critical role in the neural regulation of a navigational system used by homing pigeons to locate their loft once in the familiar area near home. In support of this hypothesis, the homing performance of pigeons with target lesions of either the hippocampus or ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Bingman VP,Mench JA

更新日期：1990-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal activity was recorded in the hippocampal formation, the parahippocampal gyrus and medial inferotemporal cortex of monkeys performing memory tasks. In a modified delayed matching to sample task in which 2 sequentially presented stimuli were compared on each trial, a match condition required a right panel press...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Wilson FA,Riches IP,Brown MW

更新日期：1990-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the velocity of pointing movements towards visual targets was analyzed. In accordance with the literature, tangential velocity was found to exhibit rather smooth, single-peaked profiles. In contrast, however, the profiles of the velocity components in the Cartesian coordinates of space were consp...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Bock O

更新日期：1990-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The dorsal immobility response (DIR) is typically seen in the infants of many altricial mammalian species. Lifting the animal into the air by the nape of the neck is the primary releasing stimulus. Functionally, this response appears to facilitate carrying of the infants by the adults. When grasped by the nape and lif...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Pellis SM,Teitelbaum P,Meyer ME

更新日期：1990-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The noradrenergic system was pharmacologically activated with the alpha 2 receptor antagonist, idazoxan (2 mg/kg i.p.), during the acquisition of a complex appetitive task requiring a shift in attention to stimulus dimension and in response strategy. Rats first learned a fixed path of 6 successive choices in a linear ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Devauges V,Sara SJ

更新日期：1990-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In a short-distance homing task, golden hamsters derive the homing direction both from visual extra-maze cues and from the integration of the outward journey. The relative importance of visual configurations in the control of homing was assessed by presenting these cues in conflict with path integration. The hamsters ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Etienne AS,Joris S,Maurer R,Teroni E

更新日期：1990-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments compared the effects of dopamine depletion from the caudate-putamen (CAUD; dorsal striatum) or nucleus accumbens septi (NAS; ventral striatum), or a systemically administered dopamine receptor antagonist (alpha-flupenthixol) on the acquisition and performance of a conditional discrimination task invo...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Robbins TW,Giardini V,Jones GH,Reading P,Sahakian BJ

更新日期：1990-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Within triads of male Wistar rats, some animals almost completely abstain from competition for palatable sucrose-pellets (so-called poor-performing rats). Individual housing temporarily helped these rats to behave more competitively. Such changes in the poor-performing rats' competition-scores are discussed in relatio...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Gentsch C,Lichtsteiner M,Feer H

更新日期：1990-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The neglect which follows a unilateral lesion of anteromedial cortex in rat was examined using two tasks. In the first task animals had to press the left bar of a two-bar Skinner box for food reward. In the second task animals captured live locusts presented in either their right or left visual field. The results show...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Christie D,Terry P,Oakley DA

更新日期：1990-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Some behavioral effects of GABA in the hippocampus and its probable interaction with histamine in adult male rats were studied. Four experiments were performed. In Expt. 1, rats were implanted unilaterally into the ventral hippocampus and they were microinjected with increasing doses of GABA. Five minutes later the fo...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Alvarez EO,Banzan AM

更新日期：1990-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of increasing task difficulty on the threshold of rewarding, electrical brain stimulation was evaluated. Rats were trained to press a lever to obtain a brief burst of pulses to the lateral hypothalamus. The threshold was psychophysically scaled using a descending method of limits in which the pulse frequenc...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Fouriezos G,Bielajew C,Pagotto W

更新日期：1990-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In two different experiments, serotonin (5-HT) and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) levels were measured in rats, using HPLC with electrochemical detection, in 3 brain regions (hippocampus, cerebral cortex and hypothalamus) after acute i.p. treatment with diazepam (4 mg/kg), alprazolam (1.25 mg/kg) or vehicle. In t...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Boix F,Fernández Teruel A,Escorihuela RM,Tobeña A

更新日期：1990-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed an adaptive training method which considerably reduces the total time required to train cats to threshold in an orientation discrimination task. During training, the animals are given greater exposure in time to the positive stimulus compared to the negative one. Therefore, this method has been coine...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： de Weerd P,Vandenbussche E,Orban GA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experiments examine the effects of cortical lesions on a variety of behaviours in the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus). Gerbils with either large anterior or posterior lesions were compared with normal gerbils by administering a battery of tests of rodent behaviours such as grooming, eating, social interac...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Ellard CG,Stewart DJ,Donaghy S,Vanderwolf CH

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous alternation was examined in young rats following microinjections of antinicotinic agents into one of the 4 hippocampal sites: anterodorsal, or posteroventral dentate gyrus, hippocampal gyrus, or entorhinal cortex. In control and saline-injected animals, the alternation rate was shown to grow suddenly from ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Blozovski D,Hess C

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paradoxically, animals exhibiting haloperidol-induced cataleptic immobility can be induced to leap vigorously, by pushing them forward from behind. It is shown here that such jumping can also be produced by placing them on a board and tilting it tail-end upward until about 50 degrees above horizontal. In both situatio...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Morrissey TK,Pellis SM,Pellis VC,Teitelbaum P

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This experiment evaluated the effects of forebrain norepinephrine (NE) and serotonin depletion on the unconditioned stimulus (US) pre-exposure phenomenon. Rats with either dorsal bundle lesions, raphe lesions, or which served as vehicle controls were assigned to one of two training conditions. One-half of the animals ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Rickert EJ,Lorden JF

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has shown that the dorsal immobility response (DIR) changes significantly in duration across the estrous cycle. In order to test whether gonadal steroid hormones act directly on the striatum to modulate this behavior, ovariectomized female Long-Evans hooded rats were given bilateral intrastriatal imp...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Van Hartesveldt C,Cottrell GA,Meyer ME

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injections of carbachol (CCh) through a chronic cannula into the midbrain periaqueductal grey region (PAG) of the cat induced an emotional-defensive response (EDR) which was evaluated by duration and number of growls in a 30-min experimental session. That response was examined before and after injection of kainic acid...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Gołebiewski H,Eckersdorf B

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When rats are placed in a novel environment, they alternate between progression and stopping: in the course of a session they stop briefly in many places, but in one or two places they also stop for very long periods. The place in which they stay for the longest cumulative time is defined as the rat's home base. In th...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Eilam D,Golani I

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of subjects walking blindly to previously inspected visual targets (located at 5, 10 or 15 m from the subjects) was studied in 2 experiments. In Expt. 1, subjects selected as good visual imagers were instructed to build up a mental representation of the target. Then they had to either actually walk or ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Decety J,Jeannerod M,Prablanc C

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unit activity in the medial septal area of the rat was studied during pavlovian appetitive differential conditioning. The firing pattern of cells in the medial septum is that of suppression to presentation of the conditioned excitor and no significant increase to the presentation of the conditioned inhibitor. This pat...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Yadin E

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of aspiration lesions of the cerebral cortex on the behavioral effects of intraventricular substantia nigra grafts were investigated. Apomorphine-induced rotational behavior consequent to unilateral lesions of the substantia nigra was used as a behavioral measure. Substantia nigra grafts reduced rotational beh...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Freed WJ,Cannon-Spoor HE

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of various hippocampal manipulations on the classically conditioned nictitating membrane (NM) response were simulated by a real-time attentional-associative model. The model incorporates: (a) a mechanism capable of establishing associations between conditioned (CS) and unconditioned stimuli (US) and betwee...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Schmajuk NA,Moore JW

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were trained to reach for food pellets, which varied in size from 20 to 300 mg, from one of 21 locations on a shelf located just outside a test cage. After a barrier was lifted, giving access to a food pellet, latency to contact the food was timed, number of reaches to contact the food were counted, the distance ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Whishaw IQ,Tomie JA

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats learned to discriminate between two degrees of roughness, detecting the stimuli only with their vibrissal system. After bilateral trimming of the vibrissae, performance abruptly dropped to chance levels and remained there throughout the period in which the vibrissae were kept trimmed. After the vibrissae regrew t...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Guić-Robles E,Valdivieso C,Guajardo G

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous experiments have shown that a post-training glucose injection can retroactively and non-contingently improve the retention of a previously learned association. To date, the memory-improving action of glucose has only been demonstrated in rats for negatively-motivated tasks. The present experiment sought to ge...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Messier C,Destrade C

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00