Effect of frontal ablation upon conditioned responses.

HC Nielson, KB Davis - Journal of Comparative and Physiological …, 1966 - psycnet.apa.org
Frontal cortical ablation in cats abolished CRs established to electrical stimulation of
structures of the reticular system, although CRs were reacquired with additional training with …

The role of the cortex in acquisition and retention of a classically conditioned passive avoidance response

IS Russell, D Kleinman, HC Plotkin, RB Ross - Physiology & Behavior, 1969 - Elsevier
A classically conditioned passive avoidance response was found to transfer in the functional
split-brain which suggested a lack of cortical involvement in this type of learning. It was …

Conditioned suppression with a positive US in the rat.

GC Van Dyne - Journal of comparative and physiological …, 1971 - psycnet.apa.org
Trained 24 male hooded rats that responded to medial forebrain stimulation to bar press for
food. Ss were then habituated to a light-tone stimulus. 1/2 the ss received cs (light-tone)-ucs …

Effects of conditioned stimulus presentation on diminution of the unconditioned response in aversive classical conditioning

JL Marcos, J Redondo - Biological psychology, 1999 - Elsevier
The purpose of this experiment was to study whether conditioned diminution of the
unconditioned response (UR) is a phenomenon with an associative basis. Discriminative …

Modulation of synaptic transmission from segmental afferents by spontaneous activity of dorsal horn spinal neurones in the cat

E Manjarrez, JG Rojas‐Piloni, I Jiménez… - The Journal of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
1 We examined, in the anaesthetised cat, the influence of the neuronal ensembles
producing spontaneous negative cord dorsum potentials (nCDPs) on segmental pathways …

The conditioning of striped muscle responses based upon faradic stimulation of dorsal roots and dorsal columns of the spinal cord.

RB Loucks, WH Gantt - Journal of Comparative Psychology, 1938 - psycnet.apa.org
The unconditioned stimulus was a shock applied directly to the afferent fibers of the cord,
while the conditioned stimulus was the sound of a buzzer. The subjects were five dogs …

Cortical mechanisms and the inhibition of instrumental responses

J Dabrowska - Mechanisms of Learning and Motivation, 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter concerns a particular part of the cortex, the prefrontal area, and the manner in
which lesions within this area affect performance in situations involving the conditioning of …

Synaptic plasticity in the thalamo-cortical pathway as one of the neurobiological correlates of forelimb flexion conditioning: electrophysiological investigation in the cat

EM Meftah, L Rispal-Padel - Journal of neurophysiology, 1994 - journals.physiology.org
1. In a previous study, using a chronic cat preparation subjected to an associative
conditioning procedure, we described the plasticity of the thalamo-cortical pathway by …

Conditioning-specific modification of the rabbit's unconditioned nictitating membrane response.

BG Schreurs, MM Oh, C Hirashima… - Behavioral …, 1995 - psycnet.apa.org
Robust classical conditioning modifies responding to the unconditioned stimulus (US) in the
absence of the conditioned stimulus (CS), a phenomenon the researchers called …

Unit activity of anterior cingulate cortex in differential conditioning and reversal

M Gabriel, SE Saltwick, JD Miller - Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1977 - Springer
Neuronal activity of the anterior cingulate (AC) region of the rabbit cerebral cortex was
recorded during differential conditioning and reversal of a behavioral avoidance response …