ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING IN APLYSIA - CELLULAR CORRELATES SUPPORTING A CONDITIONED FEAR HYPOTHESIS
ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING IN APLYSIA - CELLULAR CORRELATES SUPPORTING A CONDITIONED FEAR HYPOTHESIS
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DOI:
10.1126/science.7455692
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
KANDEL, ER
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作者:
CAREW, TJ;WALTERS, ET;KANDEL, ER
Aversive associative learning in A. californica survives restraint of the animal and surgical exposure of the CNS. The learning is expressed in the intracellularly recorded activity of identified motor neurons mediating 3 different defensive behaviors: escape locomotion, inking and siphon withdrawal. Animals that had previously received paired training showed significant facilitation of synaptic input to motor neurons during test stimulation in the presence of the conditioned stimulus. Animals without such training showed no facilitation of input to the motor neurons. Resting potential and input resistance appeared unaffected by conditioning and were not altered by application of the conditioned stimulus. The conditioned facilitation of defensive responses cannot be explained by subthreshold actions of the conditioned stimulus on the motor neurons. The hypothesis that Aplysia learn to associate the conditioned stimulus with a fearlike central state is supported.