Interpeduncular Nucleus and Avoidance Conditioning in the Rat
- 25 November 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 132 (3439) , 1551-1553
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.132.3439.1551
Abstract
Rats trained to make a jumping response to the onset of a visual stimulus lost the habit after damage to the interpeduncular nucleus of the midbrain. It was noted, however, that the majority of the operated animals showed perfect retention of the "fear" response to the conditioned stimulus.Keywords
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