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Neuronal responses of the rat amygdala during extinction and reassociation learning in the elementary and configural associative tasks
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- Neuronal responses of the rat amygdala during extinction and reassociation learning in elementary and configural associative tasks
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>To investigate functional heterogeneity within the amygdala in appetitive conditioned instrumental behaviours, neuronal activity was recorded from the amygdala of behaving rats during learning and discrimination of conditioned sensory stimuli associated with or without reinforcement [sucrose solution, intracranial self‐stimulation (ICSS)]. Sensory stimuli included auditory (tone), visual (light) and configural (simultaneous presentation of tone and light) stimuli. The rat was trained to lick a spout protruded close to its mouth just after a conditioned sensory stimulus to obtain a reward. Of the 609 neurons recorded from the amygdala and amygdalostriatal transition area, 154 responded to one or more sensory stimuli. The 62 amygdalar neurons responded strongly to certain conditioned sensory stimuli associated with rewards. Of these 62 neurons, 45 were tested with the extinction trials. Responses of 31 neurons to conditioned stimuli were finally extinguished, and those of the remaining 14 were not extinguished. Furthermore, responses of 26 of these 31 neurons resumed in the relearning trials (plastic neurons), suggesting that these sensory responses were associative rather than just responses to physical properties of the stimuli. These plastic neurons were located mainly in the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala, and responses of the plastic neurons were correlated with behavioural responses. These results suggest that the basolateral nucleus is crucial in associative learning between sensory information and affective significance for behavioural outputs in appetitive conditioned instrumental behaviours.</jats:p>
Journal
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- European Journal of Neuroscience
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European Journal of Neuroscience 15 753-768, 2002
Wiley
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Keywords
- Male
- Neurons
- Neuronal Plasticity
- Action Potentials
- Neural Inhibition
- Amygdala
- Extinction, Psychological
- Rats
- Discrimination Learning
- Acoustic Stimulation
- Reward
- Conditioning, Psychological
- Auditory Perception
- Reaction Time
- Visual Perception
- Animals
- Cues
- Rats, Wistar
- Photic Stimulation
- Psychomotor Performance
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- CRID
- 1571980075975807616
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- NII Article ID
- 30014382169
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- ISSN
- 14609568
- 0953816X
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- PubMed
- 11886454
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- CiNii Articles
- OpenAIRE