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Homan, Philipp; Lau, H. Lee; Levy, Ifat; Raio, Candace M.; Bach, Dominik R.; Carmel, David; Schiller, Daniela – Learning & Memory, 2021
In an ever-changing environment, survival depends on learning which stimuli represent threat, and also on updating such associations when circumstances shift. It has been claimed that humans can acquire physiological responses to threat-associated stimuli even when they are unaware of them, but the role of awareness in updating threat…
Descriptors: Physiology, Responses, Fear, Brain
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Kikas, Katarina; Westbrook, R. Frederick; Holmes, Nathan M. – Learning & Memory, 2021
Four experiments examined the effects of a dangerous context and a systemic epinephrine injection on sensory preconditioning in rats. In each experiment, rats were exposed to presentations of a tone and light in stage 1, light-shock pairings in stage 2, and test presentations of the tone alone and light alone in stage 3. Presentations of the tone…
Descriptors: Sensory Experience, Conditioning, Animals, Visual Stimuli
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Matell, Matthew S.; Della Valle, Rebecca B. – Learning & Memory, 2018
Presentation of a previously trained Pavlovian conditioned stimulus while an organism is engaged in operant responding can moderate the rate of responding, a phenomenon known as Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer. Although it is well known that Pavlovian contingencies will generate conditioned behavior that is temporally organized with respect to…
Descriptors: Operant Conditioning, Experiments, Animals, Time
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Holmes, Nathan M.; Westbrook, R. Frederick – Learning & Memory, 2017
Four experiments used a sensory preconditioning protocol to examine how a dangerous context influences learning about innocuous events. In Experiments 1, 2, and 3, rats were exposed to presentations of a tone followed immediately or 20-sec later by presentations of a light. These tone-light pairings occurred in a context that was either familiar…
Descriptors: Animals, Experiments, Light, Auditory Stimuli
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Minini, Loredana; Jeffery, Kathryn J. – Learning & Memory, 2006
Visual discrimination tasks are increasingly used to explore the neurobiology of vision in rodents, but it remains unclear how the animals solve these tasks: Do they process shapes holistically, or by using low-level features such as luminance and angle acuity? In the present study we found that when discriminating triangles from squares, rats did…
Descriptors: Animals, Cognitive Processes, Visual Stimuli, Visual Perception
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Walker, David L.; Paschall, Gayla Y.; Davis, Michael – Learning & Memory, 2005
The basolateral amygdala's involvement in fear acquisition and expression to visual and auditory stimuli is well known. The involvement of the basolateral and other amygdala areas in fear acquisition and expression to stimuli of other modalities is less certain. We evaluated the contribution of the basolateral and medial amygdala to olfactory and…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Fear, Auditory Stimuli, Visual Stimuli
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Vervliet, Bram; Vansteenwegen, Debora; Eelen, Paul – Learning & Memory, 2004
In a human fear conditioning paradigm using the skin conductance response (SCR), participants were assigned to two groups. Following identical acquisition, group ABA (n = 16) was extinguished to a generalization stimulus (GS), whereas group AAB (n = 20) was extinguished to the conditioned stimulus (CS). At test, presenting the CS in group ABA…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Conditioning, Fear, Generalization
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Barco, Angel; Kandel, Eric R.; Gordon, Barbara; Lickey, Marvin E.; Suzuki, Seigo; Pham, Tony A.; Graham, Sarah J. – Learning & Memory, 2004
The adult cerebral cortex can adapt to environmental change. Using monocular deprivation as a paradigm, we find that rapid experience-dependent plasticity exists even in the mature primary visual cortex. However, adult cortical plasticity differs from developmental plasticity in two important ways. First, the effect of adult, but not juvenile…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Animals, Visual Stimuli, Science Experiments
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Chudasama, Yogita; Dalley, Jeffrey W.; Nathwani, Falgyni; Bouger, Pascale; Robbins, Trevor W. – Learning & Memory, 2004
Two experiments examined the effects of reductions in cortical cholinergic function on performance of a novel task that allowed for the simultaneous assessment of attention to a visual stimulus and memory for that stimulus over a variable delay within the same test session. In the first experiment, infusions of the muscarinic receptor antagonist…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Visual Stimuli, Short Term Memory, Attention
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Vuckovich, Joseph A.; Semel, Mara E.; Baxter, Mark G. – Learning & Memory, 2004
A recent study suggests that lesions to all major areas of the cholinergic basal forebrain in the rat (medial septum, horizontal limb of the diagonal band of Broca, and nucleus basalis magnocellularis) impair a spatial working memory task. However, this experiment used a surgical technique that may have damaged cerebellar Purkinje cells. The…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Animals, Short Term Memory, Spatial Ability