Temporal integration in Pavlovian appetitive conditioning in rats

From: Learning & Behavior | Date: February 1, 2007| Author: Leising, Kenneth J; Sawa, Kosuke; Blaisdell, Aaron P | Copyright information

We used an appetitive sensory preconditioning procedure to investigate temporal integration in rats in two experiments. In Phase 1, rats were presented with simultaneous compound trials on which a 10-sec conditioned stimulus (CS) X was embedded within a 60-sec CS A. In Group Early, CS X occurred during the early portion of CS A, whereas in Group Late, CS X occurred during the latter portion of CS A. In Phase 2, CS X was paired simultaneously with sucrose. On a subsequent test with CS A, the r...

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