Simultaneous and backward fear conditioning in the rat.

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Examined simultaneous and backward Pavlovian conditioning paradigms using a UCS event which was longer in duration than the CS. 3 experiments with male Sprague-Dawley rats (N = 96) paired a 4-sec electric shock with a 2-sec tone-light stimulus under conditions in which the onset of the stimulus occurred 0, .25, 1.0, 2.0, 4.0, or 4.5 sec. after the onset of the shock. Relative to nonpaired control procedures, response-contingent presentations of the CSs in these paradigms significantly suppressed a food-rewarded free operant, indicating that these temporal relationships can produce excitatory associative conditioning. It is suggested that the distinctions between "forward," "simultaneous," and "backward" procedures be modified to include a more molecular analysis of the UCS event. (21 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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