Acquisition and retention of classical conditioning in the newborn rat
- 31 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Psychobiology
- Vol. 13 (5) , 519-526
- https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.420130511
Abstract
The development of memory of a conditioned response was examined in London black rats between 0 and 4 days of age. For the conditioning, a vibrotactile stimulus paired with an electric shock was presented to the animal 80 times with an interval of 2000 msec between stimuli. The animals were retested at retention intervals of 3 min or 24 hr. The results showed that 0-, 2-, 3-, and 4-day-old rats possess a retention capacity of at least 24 hr and suggest that the emergence of memory may be task-specific.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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