ERIC Number: EJ1241468
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Publication Date: 2020-Jan
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Reminders Reinstate Context-Specificity to Generalized Remote Memories in Rats: Relation to Activity in the Hippocampus and aCC
Sekeres, Melanie J.; Moscovitch, Morris; Grady, Cheryl L.; Sullens, D. Gregory; Winocur, Gordon
Learning & Memory, v27 n1 p1-5 Jan 2020
Conditioned fear memories that are context-specific shortly after conditioning generalize over time. We exposed rats to a context reminder 30 d after conditioning, which served to reinstate context-specificity, and investigated how this reminder alters retrieval-induced activity in the hippocampus and anterior cingulate cortex (aCC) relative to a no reminder condition. c-Fos expression in dorsal CA1 was observed following retrieval in the original context, but not in a novel context, whether or not the memory was reactivated, suggesting that dCA1 retains the context-specific representation. c-Fos was highly expressed in aCC following remote memory testing in both contexts, regardless of reminder condition, indicating that aCC develops generalized representations that are insensitive to memory reactivation.
Descriptors: Memory, Animals, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Conditioning, Fear, Generalization, Context Effect, Comparative Analysis, Testing, Genetics, Cytology, Foreign Countries, Drug Therapy
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