Retinal transplant-mediated learning in a conditioned suppression task in rats.
- 1 September 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 86 (18) , 7248-7249
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.86.18.7248
Abstract
Retinae were transplanted from embryonic rats to a location over the midbrain of unilaterally anucleated newborn rats. At maturity, the rats were trained to "lever-press" for a food reward. By using a Pavlovian conditioned suppression paradigm, it was found that light delivered to the transplant could be recognized by the host rat as a conditioned stimulus, resulting in a reduced rate of lever pressing.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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