Instrumental Learning of Vasomotor Responses by Rats: Learning to Respond Differentially in the Two Ears
- 29 March 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 159 (3822) , 1485-1486
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.159.3822.1485
Abstract
Curarized and artificially respirated rats were rewarded by electrical stimulation of the brain for changes in the balance of vasomotor activity between the two ears. They learned vasomotor responses in one ear that were independent of those in the other ear, in either forepaw, or in the tail, or of changes in heart rate or temperature. In addition to implications for learning theory and psychosomatic medicine, these results indicate a greater specificity of action in the sympathetic nervous system than is usually attributed to it.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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