Analysis of the memory trace nature in passive avoidance response |
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Authors: | A N Inozemtsev |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Abstract: | Passive avoidance conditioning is analyzed in a three compartment apparatus that consists of a light compartment, a dark dangerous compartment in which foot shock was delivered, and a dark safe one where the rats were not shocked. It is concluded that latency increase of passive response is caused not by memory of the shock in a strictly certain location and, accordingly, not by shock avoidance in it, but by non-specific defensive response (freezing) unrelated to the shock location. |
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