Amphetamine decrease the expression and acquisition of appetitive conditioning but increases the acquisition of anticipatory responding over a trace interval
Amphetamine decrease the expression and acquisition of appetitive conditioning but increases the acquisition of anticipatory responding over a trace interval
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DOI:
10.1177/0269881104047279
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发表时间:
2004-12-01
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
Cassaday, HJ
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作者:
Kantini, E;Norman, C;Cassaday, HJ
The effects of amphetamine on selective learning were tested in a trace conditioning procedure, in which the informativeness of the conditioned stimulus (G) (noise) was manipulated through the introduction of a time interval before the delivery of the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) (food). The results showed that d-amphetamine (0.5 and 1.5 mg/kg) impaired both the expression (Experiment 1b) and acquisition (Experiment 2) of appetitive conditioning. This was true for both trace and contiguously conditioned groups. The effects of the 0.5 mg/kg dose of d-amphetamine were not attributable to general motor (measured pre-CS) or motivational (measured post-UCS) effects of the drug. Moreover, the same pattern of effects (impaired appetitive conditioning, irrespective of the trace interval between CS and UCS) was confirmed in drug-free extinction tests. By contrast to the general depression in the acquisition and expression of associative learning observed under amphetamine, the 0.5 mg/kg dose promoted the acquisition of anticipatory responses made later in the trace interval (in Experiment 2 but, again, not the expression of previous conditioning in Experiment 1b). This suggests a dissociable effect of Low-dose d-amphetamine on learning about the temporal relationship between CS and UCS.