abstract：:The structural characteristics of the area postrema, its anatomical connections, participation in the detection of emesis-provoking substances and the effects of area postrema lesions on taste aversion learning acquisition, are all factors which speak in favor of a role as a chemoreceptor zone involved in the detectio...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Gallo M,Arnedo M,Agüero A,Puerto A

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The validity of the hypothesis put forward earlier, that testicular secretions during puberty have an organizing effect on open field ambulation was examined. Male rats were castrated or sham-operated at days 21, 43 or 70. At the age of 17 weeks the males were tested in an automated, octagonal open field (3 consecutiv...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Brand T,Slob AK

更新日期：1988-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Blind pointing (i.e. pointing to visual targets without seeing the pointing arm) was investigated in normal subjects in response to stepwise lateral tilts (20 degrees) of the body, head, and trunk. Blind pointing positions of the right index finger on the outer surface of a hemispherical screen were measured relative ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Ott D,Eckmiller R

更新日期：1988-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental and clinical studies have generally shown that the neural mechanisms for face processing in man are (1) designed to deal with the configuration of upright faces and (2) located predominantly in the right cerebral hemisphere. Monkeys would seem to process faces in a different manner to humans since they ap...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Perrett DI,Mistlin AJ,Chitty AJ,Smith PA,Potter DD,Broennimann R,Harries M

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efferent and afferent connections of the V1/V2 border with the contralateral hemisphere have been examined using anatomical tracers. The V1/V2 border was found to exchange connections with the contralateral V2 area as well as a restricted strip of V1 lying adjacent to the V1/V2 border. Besides these homotopic proj...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Kennedy H,Dehay C

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral, posttraining injection of substance P (SP) has been shown to facilitate the retention of aversive and appetitive learning tasks, suggesting that SP may play a role in information processing. In addition, SP may modulate the release of nigrostriatal monoamines, which have also been linked with avoidance lea...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Pelleymounter MA,Schlesinger K,Wehner J,Hall ME,Stewart JM

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were trained to respond to the lever above which a light stimulus was briefly (0.5 s) presented at unpredictable times. Once the task had been learned to criterion, subjects were injected, intra-peritoneally, with arginine8-vasopressin, desglycinamide arginine8-vasopressin (AVP or DGAVP: 0, 5, 10 or 20 micrograms...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Sahgal A

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to develop spatial learning tasks not requiring food or water deprivation for use in studies of recovery of function after brain damage, T-maze spatial alternation learning was examined in intact rats using water maze swim-escape procedures. Consistent with previous studies, rewarded spatial alternation i...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Goodlett CR,Nonneman AJ,Valentino ML,West JR

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following blockage of the protein transport by colchicine or by interruption of the rubrofugal descending pathway, choline acetyltransferase-immunoreactive neurons were found in the red nucleus of the rat. Their morphology and location suggest that they are rubrospinal neurons. ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Onténiente B,Condé F

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex, multicomponent excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) of the red nucleus rubrospinal neurons evoked by stimulation of the sensorimotor cortex and associative field of the parietal cortex were studied in acute experiments on pentobarbitalized cats by the intracellular recording technique. Complex cortical ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Fanardjian VV,Gorodnov VL

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pairing of the stimulus to the cerebral peduncle (CP) with that to the forearm skin leads cats to flex their forearms within a 10-day training period in response to stimulus to CP, which was initially ineffective. Behavioral study and extracellular unit analysis suggested that the cellular mechanism for this condition...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Murakami F,Oda Y,Tsukahara N

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Axonal branching patterns of physiologically identified cerebellar nucleus neurones and rubrospinal neurones were investigated in the cat with intra-axonal injection of horseradish peroxidase and 3-dimensional reconstruction on serial sections. Axons of dentate and interpositus neurones projected to the VL nucleus of ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Shinoda Y,Futami T,Mitoma H,Yokota J

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male rats both eat more and weigh more than females. Differences in food intake and body weight result, at least partly, from differences in gonadal hormone secretions. The present experiments were designed to investigate whether sex differences in food motivation might contribute to the behavioral differences observe...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： van Hest A,van Haaren F,van de Poll NE

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unilateral lesions of the superior colliculus produce contralateral neglect. This study determined if bilateral lesions would impair head orientation in a way expected from the summation of two contralateral neglects. Rats were trained to make various head movements to get water at a 3 x 3 array of holes, each with a ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Sinnamon HM,Garcia EJ

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychophysical procedures were used to investigate the effects observed by humans when two odorants were presented simultaneously through the same nostril (physical mixture) or separate nostrils (dichorhinic mixture). The odor pairs were (+)-limonene and alpha-pinene, (+)-limonene and propionic acid, alpha-pinene and ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Laing DG,Willcox ME

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unilateral removals of the posterior insula or of the second somatic sensory projection area (SII) were made in respectively 8 and 6 monkeys. These animals were divided into a 'contralateral' group of 7 with removals from the hemisphere opposite to the preferred hand; and an 'ipsilateral' group of 7 animals with remov...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Hörster W,Ettlinger G

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study tested the effects of bilateral section of either the chorda tympani or glossopharyngeal nerves on the production of oro-pharyngeal electromyographic (EMG) responses to intra-oral sapid stimulation. The responses of adult rats fitted with intra-oral cannulas and fine-wire electrodes in the anterior d...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Travers JB,Grill HJ,Norgren R

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single pulse electrical stimulation of the sensorimotor cortex in waking rats produced an evoked response in the contralateral sensorimotor cortex. The slow wave response consisted of: (1) an early component that was negative at the pial surface and in layer V, and was associated with multiunit discharge; and (2) a la...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Vanderwolf CH,Harvey GC,Leung LW

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During studies of response properties of single units in the posterior parietal cortex of 6 awake monkeys, 168 neurons were encountered (7.1% of examined units) which showed anticipatory types of activity. These neurons were found on either side of the intraparietal sulcus. In area 5, this expectation activity was exp...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： MacKay WA,Crammond DJ

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep and waking stages in cats were studied 8 h following administration of zimeldine and alaproclate, in combination with saline or 5-hydroxy-1-tryptophan (5-HTP). Both drugs in combination with saline reduced rapid eye movement sleep and ponto-geniculo-occipital wave activity, and the effects were potentiated with ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Sommerfelt L,Ursin R

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study examined the effect of testosterone on the asymmetry of visual discrimination performance of young chicks. Two-week-old chicks were tested on the pebble floor visual discrimination task. Male chicks were found to have brain asymmetry for visual discrimination learning, since chicks tested binocularly, or tes...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Zappia JV,Rogers LJ

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interocular transfer of the habituation to diffuse photic stimuli was demonstrated to be almost complete in pigeons. Birds submitted to visual Wulst ablation or supraoptic commissure lesion performed in much the same way. In contrast, when the tectal and posterior commissures were lesioned, pigeons failed to show inte...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Hamassaki DE,Britto LR

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data are reviewed that suggest a common neural system may be involved in the rewarding properties of psychomotor stimulant and opiate drugs. This neural system corresponds to elements in the ventral tegmental dopamine system with cell bodies in the ventral tegmentum and axon terminals in the nucleus accumbens. Several...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Bozarth MA

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report summarizes 4 experiments which deal with the effects of surgical removal of the rat's telencephalic forebrain structures on performance of an inhibitory avoidance response, which was acquired either before or after the lesion was made. Two experiments provide evidence that inhibitory avoidance learning (us...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Huston JP,Tomaz C

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent electrophysiological and behavioural studies have suggested that the deeper layers of the superior colliculus (dl-SC) are involved in the execution of targeting movements which are elicited but not continuously guided by external stimuli. In the first part of the present study the role of the GABAergic transmis...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Gelissen M,Cools A

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the rat was performing a go/no-go alternation task with a 10-s delay period, neuronal activity was recorded from electrodes chronically implanted in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the dorsomedial thalamus (DMT). In both PFC and DMT, neuronal activity during the delay period prior to a 'go' response was differen...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Sakurai Y,Sugimoto S

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous recordings of the pattern in food approaches during ad libitum-feeding were obtained from 15 rabbits which were exposed, for periods of 3-7 months, to continuous illumination (200-250 Lux), total darkness, light-dark alternations of L1:D23 h and L12:D12h and were blinded afterwards. It appears that the circ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Bobbert AC,Bruinvels DJ

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feeding activity of domesticated and wild rats was studied. The rats obtained all their food by lever pressing in two-lever operant chambers. Concurrent variable interval (VI) and concurrent variable ratio (VR) schedules operated continuously for successive 4-day periods. Feeding occurred as regular, discrete meal...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Shepherd DS

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a Y-maze preference test paradigm, we examined the characteristics of the neural networks that integrate trains of rewarding stimulation pulses. Rats compared the rewarding effectiveness of various durations of a test reinforcement to those of 3 durations of a standard reinforcement. By changing the duration of ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Mason PA,Milner PM

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the directionality of static and dynamic motor effects on cell discharge recorded during arm movements in motor cortex and area 5. Movements of 8 directions were performed by rhesus monkeys in a two-dimensional space ('movement task'). Static effects were determined using a static hold task in the same wor...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Georgopoulos AP,Massey JT

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study shows that although many features of copulation in decorticate male rats are normal, copulatory success is importantly dependent upon the control of approaches exerted by the normal female rat. Copulation by neonatally decorticated adult rats and normal adult rats was studied in cohabitation and videotaped t...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Whishaw IQ,Kolb B

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats depleted of dopamine by intraventricular or nigrostriatal bundle 6-hydroxydopamine injection were compared with normal rats on acquisition and retention of place and cue navigation in the Morris swimming pool test and on a battery of sensorimotor tests. Rats with extensive bilateral dopamine depletions were able ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Whishaw IQ,Dunnett SB

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conscious rabbits received electrical stimulation of insular and more posterior perirhinal cortex through chronically implanted electrodes. Active sites for cardiovascular responses were found in both anterior and posterior insular cortex as well as more posterior perirhinal regions. Although differential response top...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Powell DA,Buchanan S,Hernàndez L

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats with lesions of the medial frontal, ventral frontal or posterior parietal cortex in adulthood were compared behaviorally and neuroanatomically in adulthood with rats with similar removals at 7 days of age. The neonatal lesions altered cortical morphogenesis, especially in the ventral frontal and parietal groups, ...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Kolb B,Whishaw IQ

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigeons trained to discriminate between visual stimuli in a key-pecking task normally show excellent interocular transfer of training (IOT) when trained with only one eye and then tested with the 'naive' eye. When the dorsal supraoptic decussation (DSO) was sectioned and pigeons were then trained monocularly to peck a...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Goodale MA

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After bilateral removal of the occipital lobe rabbits were studied in an enriched environment. At first their behaviour was severely impaired. After eight weeks the animals had learned to avoid obstacles, climb up ramps and jump from tables. It was shown that this recovery was due to the use of remaining visual struct...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： De Vos-Korthals WH,van Hof MW

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the selective opiate kappa-receptor agonist tifluadom on memory were investigated in a passive avoidance task in 3 sets of experiments carried out with DBA/2 (DBA) mice both familiarized and unfamiliarized with the apparatus. In a first set of experiments, tifluadom (1.0 or 2.5, but not 0.5 mg/kg) admin...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Pavone F,Castellano C

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiunit activity was chronically recorded in auditory, visual and motor cortex during classical conditioning and extinction. A statistical method for cross-correlation analysis of interneuronal relations was used. Plastic changes in cortical integrative function had spatial features and depended upon types of condit...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Gassanov UG,Merzhanova GK,Galashina AG

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study the relationship between 6-hydroxydopamine lesions of dopaminergic innervation of the lateral septum and schedule-induced polydipsia was examined. Animals with lesions were found to have a significant increase in water intake during a test involving an intermittent schedule of food delivery. Additional e...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Taghzouti K,Simon H,Tazi A,Dantzer R,Le Moal M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nudibranch mollusk Hermissenda crassicornis' normal attraction to light can be suppressed by repeated pairings of light with rotation. The present study examines the effects of extinction procedures on this simple form of associative learning. Presentation of non-reinforced light steps following associative condit...

journal_title：Behavioural brain research

authors： Richards WG,Farley J,Alkon DL

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00