Journal article
Extinction and retention of a classically conditioned flexor nerve response in acute spinal cat
Behavioral neuroscience, v 97(4), pp 530-540
Aug 1983
PMID: 6615629
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Abstract
Conditioned adult male and female cats by pairing a mild electrical stimulus to the superficial peroneal sensory nerve (CS) with a stronger electrical stimulus to the ankle skin (UCS) of the same leg. Subsequent extinction was produced by presenting CS-alone trials. In Exp I (42 Ss), Ss given massed extinction trials showed response decrements to base levels, but Ss that received distributed extinction trials showed no decrements. In Exp II, .5-, 1-, 2-, 3-, or 4-hr intervals between acquisition and extinction produced no significant differences in the extinction data. In Exp III (20 Ss), Ss received extinction trials immediately or 30 min after acquisition trials, followed by 20 additional extinction trials 30 min later. Data indicated significant acquisition and extinction in the 10- and 20-acquisition trial groups. As in Exp II (35 Ss), varying the interval between acquisition and extinction did not produce any group differences in the extinction data. These results demonstrate that response increases produced by paired trials in the spinal preparation do not decay spontaneously over time and are not caused by sensitization effects. (23 ref)
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- Title
- Extinction and retention of a classically conditioned flexor nerve response in acute spinal cat
- Creators
- Alvin L Beggs - Ohio UJoseph E SteinmetzAnthony G RomanoMichael M Patterson
- Publication Details
- Behavioral neuroscience, v 97(4), pp 530-540
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- MD (Doctor of Medicine) Program
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1983RC65500002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0020807414
- Other Identifier
- 991014878179204721
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