Hippocampal lesions and temporally chained conditioned stimuli in a conditioned suppression paradigm
Hippocampal lesions and temporally chained conditioned stimuli in a conditioned suppression paradigm
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条件抑制范式中的海马病变和时间链条件刺激
DOI:
10.3758/bf03327219
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发表时间:
1990
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通讯作者:
G. Borszcz
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作者:
R. N. Leaton;G. Borszcz
Rats with lesions restricted primarily to the dorsal hippocampus were compared with shamoperated controls in a barpress conditioned suppression paradigm. Training on the barpress baseline involved temporally chaining different conditioned stimuli (CSs), each 30 sec in duration, and began with CS1, followed by a shock unconditioned stimulus (US). When criteria for suppression were reached on CS1-US, the animal was advanced to CS2-CS1-US. Training progressed in this way to CS4-CS3-CS2-CS1-US. The rats with hippocampal lesions learned CS1-US as rapidly as controls did, but they progressively failed relative to the controls as training progressed to the other CSs. This problem is interpreted as a temporal analogue of the spatial sequence in complex maze learning, and the lesion-induced deficit is interpreted as an inability to develop conditioned expectancies. We argue for an analysis of hippocampal deficits in terms of the established phenomena of conditioning.