SELECTIVE ADJUSTMENT OF THE SPEED OF INTERNAL CLOCK AND MEMORY PROCESSES
SELECTIVE ADJUSTMENT OF THE SPEED OF INTERNAL CLOCK AND MEMORY PROCESSES
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10.1037/0097-7403.9.2.171
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1983-01-01
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MECK, WH
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MECK, WH
Four experiments studied the scaling of time by male Charles River albino rats to determine if internal clock and memory processes could be selectively adjusted by pharmacological manipulations. Experiments used a temporal discrimination procedure in which 1 response (" short") was reinforced following a 2-sec noise signal and a different response (" long") was reinforced following an 8-sec noise signal; unreinforced signals of intermediate duration were also presented. The proportion of long responses increased as a function of signal duration. All drugs were administered ip. In Exp I, methamphetamine selectively increased and haloperidol selectively decreased clock speed. In Exp II, footshock stress increased clock speed during continuous administration but decreased clock speed below control values when the footshock was abruptly terminated. Exp III demonstrated that vasopressin and oxytocin selectively decreased the remembered durations of reinforced times, which suggests that memory storage speed increased. In Exp IV, physostigmine decreased, and atropine increased, these remembered durations, which suggests that memory storage speed was differentially affected. It is concluded that internal clock and memory processes can be dissociated by selectively adjusting their speed of operation and that these changes can be quantitatively modeled by a scalar timing theory.(61 ref)(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)