MIDBRAIN UNIT-ACTIVITY DURING CLASSICAL-CONDITIONING
MIDBRAIN UNIT-ACTIVITY DURING CLASSICAL-CONDITIONING
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DOI:
10.1016/0006-8993(77)90926-x
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
OLDS, J
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作者:
BRAUTH, SE;OLDS, J
In behaving rats, unit activity recorded from the ventral tegmentum and from the reticular formation was monitored during classical conditioning. Rewarding electric stimulation of the medial forebrain bundle was used as the unconditioned stimulus (UCS). Only those cells possessing prior responses to the conditioned stimulus (CS) changed their responses as a result of conditioning. Responses recorded from cells which were driven by both the auditory CS and the brain shock UCS were significantly more often changed than those driven by the CS alone. The auditory and brain shock fields of influence interacted in at least some brain regions prior to conditioning, and pairing the 2 kinds of stimuli was more likely to influence auditory responses recorded from these regions than those recorded elsewhere. The intersection of the 2 fields may be a sine qua non of conditioning, and the 2 prior actions may cause the change by interacting at or near the recording point.