Latent inhibition: Behavioural characteristics and neural substrates

潜伏抑制是精神分裂症的一种动物模型。它指的是当预先暴露的刺激信号表明某些重要的东西时，学习表现的损害。最初的学习干扰了随后的学习。这种效果不会发生在精神分裂症患者身上，但在他们接受抗精神病药物治疗后会出现。该项目将为涉及该效应及其神经基质的过程的综合理论提供基础。这样的理论将阐明精神分裂症的过程和神经基质的破坏。学生将接受行为神经科学方面的培训，在期刊上发表研究成果，并在会议上发表演讲，这将提高澳大利亚科学界的声誉。

Latent inhibition is an animal model of schizophrenia. It refers to the impairment in learned performance when a pre-exposed stimulus signals something of importance. The initial learning interferes with the subsequent learning. This effect fails to occur in schizophrenics but occurs after their treatment with antipsychotic medication. The project will provide the basis for a comprehensive theory of the processes involved in the effect and their neural substrates. Such a theory will clarify the processes and neural substrates disrupted in schizophrenia. Students will receive training in behavioural neuroscience, and publication of results in journals and presentations at conferences will add to the reputation of Australian science.