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Guo, Chao; Du, Yifei; Yuan, Deliang; Li, Meixia; Gong, Haiyun; Gong, Zhefeng; Liu, Li – Learning & Memory, 2015
Orientation, the spatial organization of animal behavior, is an essential faculty of animals. Bacteria and lower animals such as insects exhibit taxis, innate orientation behavior, directly toward or away from a directional cue. Organisms can also orient themselves at a specific angle relative to the cues. In this study, using…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Entomology, Cues, Visual Perception
Molet, Mikael; Macquet, Benjamin; Charley, Gregory – Learning and Motivation, 2013
Three experiments explored relational responding in evaluative conditioning. In Experiment 1, the participants were trained with a computer task to make relational responses by putting CSs of different sizes in boxes in order of size. Subsequently they were instructed that these different sized CSs represented different intensities of hypothetical…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Responses, Stimuli, Evaluation
Slouzkey, Ilana; Maroun, Mouna – Learning & Memory, 2016
The basolateral amygdala (BLA), medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) circuit, plays a crucial role in acquisition and extinction of fear memory. Extinction of aversive memories is mediated, at least in part, by the phosphoinositide-3 kinase (P[subscript 3]K)/Akt pathway in adult rats. There is recent interest in the neural mechanisms that mediate fear…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Conditioning, Fear, Memory
Satish S. Nair; Denis Paré; Aleksandra Vicentic – npj Science of Learning, 2016
The neuronal systems that promote protective defensive behaviours have been studied extensively using Pavlovian conditioning. In this paradigm, an initially neutral-conditioned stimulus is paired with an aversive unconditioned stimulus leading the subjects to display behavioural signs of fear. Decades of research into the neural bases of this…
Descriptors: Fear, Biology, Brain, Models
Cicchese, Joseph J.; Darling, Ryan D.; Berry, Stephen D. – Learning & Memory, 2015
Eyeblink conditioning given in the explicit presence of hippocampal ? results in accelerated learning and enhanced multiple-unit responses, with slower learning and suppression of unit activity under non-? conditions. Recordings from putative pyramidal cells during ?-contingent training show that pretrial ?-state is linked to the probability of…
Descriptors: Animals, Research, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Learning Processes
Bas-Orth, Carlos; Tan, Yan-Wei; Oliveira, Ana M. M.; Bengtson, C. Peter; Bading, Hilmar – Learning & Memory, 2016
The formation of long-term memory requires signaling from the synapse to the nucleus to mediate neuronal activity-dependent gene transcription. Synapse-to-nucleus communication is initiated by influx of calcium ions through synaptic NMDA receptors and/or L-type voltage-gated calcium channels and involves the activation of transcription factors by…
Descriptors: Long Term Memory, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Animals, Genetics
Graham, Bronwyn M.; Richardson, Rick – Learning & Memory, 2016
These experiments examined the relationship between the neurotrophic factor fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) and individual differences in the expression of conditioned fear. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrated that rats naturally expressing low levels of contextual or cued fear have higher levels of hippocampal FGF2 relative to rats that express…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Correlation, Fear, Animals
Knox, Dayan; Stanfield, Briana R.; Staib, Jennifer M.; David, Nina P.; Keller, Samantha M.; DePietro, Thomas – Learning & Memory, 2016
Single prolonged stress (SPS) has been used to examine mechanisms via which stress exposure leads to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. SPS induces fear extinction retention deficits, but neural circuits critical for mediating these deficits are unknown. To address this gap, we examined the effect of SPS on neural activity in brain regions…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Stress Variables, Stress Management, Fear
Gomez-Sancho, Luis E.; Fernandez-Serra, Francisco; Arias, M. Francisca – Learning and Motivation, 2013
Summation is the usual result in composition procedures with excitatory stimuli. However, summation is difficult to obtain in autoshaping with pigeons. The problems with this preparation have been related to the stimuli used: combinations of intramodal conditioned stimuli (CSs). During the perceptual processing of this type of stimuli, some mutual…
Descriptors: Animals, Stimuli, Interference (Learning), Conditioning
Neuringer, Allen – Behavior Analyst, 2012
The target paper by Barba (2012) raises issues that were the focus of the author's first two publications on operant variability. The author will describe the main findings in those papers and then discuss Barba's specific arguments. Barba has argued against the operant nature of variability. (Contains 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Feedback (Response)
Goode, Travis D.; Kim, Janice J.; Maren, Stephen – Learning & Memory, 2015
Aversive events can trigger relapse of extinguished fear memories, presenting a major challenge to the long-term efficacy of therapeutic interventions. Here, we examined factors regulating the relapse of extinguished fear after exposure of rats to a dangerous context. Rats received unsignaled shock in a distinct context ("dangerous"…
Descriptors: Fear, Memory, Learning, Animals
Halverson, Hunter E.; Poremba, Amy; Freeman, John H. – Learning & Memory, 2015
Associative learning tasks commonly involve an auditory stimulus, which must be projected through the auditory system to the sites of memory induction for learning to occur. The cochlear nucleus (CN) projection to the pontine nuclei has been posited as the necessary auditory pathway for cerebellar learning, including eyeblink conditioning.…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Auditory Stimuli, Retention (Psychology), Conditioning
Cumiskey Moore, Colleen – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In three experiments, I tested the effects of the conditioned reinforcement for reading (R+Reading) on reading comprehension with 5th graders. In Experiment 1, I conducted a series of statistical analyses with data from 18 participants for one year. I administered 4 pre/post measurements for reading repertoires which included: 1) state-wide…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Reinforcement, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Sethna, Ferzin; Wang, Hongbing – Learning & Memory, 2014
Behavioral exposure therapy, which involves extinction of the previously acquired fear, has been used to treat anxiety-related symptoms such as post-traumatic stress disorder. It has been hypothesized that proextinction pharmacotherapeutics may enhance the efficacy of exposure therapy. Systemic administration of the metabotropic glutamate receptor…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Fear, Conditioning, Drug Therapy
Hegoburu, Chloé; Parrot, Sandrine; Ferreira, Guilaume; Mouly, Anne-Marie – Learning & Memory, 2014
Although the basolateral amygdala (BLA) plays a crucial role for the acquisition of fear memories, sensory cortices are involved in their long-term storage in rats. However, the time course of their respective involvement has received little investigation. Here we assessed the role of the glutamatergic N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors in the…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Fear, Memory, Olfactory Perception