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Article Dans Une Revue Behavioral and neural biology Année : 1987

Hippocampal associative cellular responses: dissociation with behavioral responses revealed by a transfer-of-control technique

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Multiunit activity was recorded in the CA3 field of the dorsal hippocampus in freely moving rats during classical conditioning and subsequent presentation of the CS on operant baselines for food reward as well as shock avoidance. Rats were first trained in a nonsignaled bar-pressing-dependent shock omission task and in a food-motivated lever-pressing task (60-s VI). Five sessions with presentations of a previously habituated tone as a CS paired with footshock as a US were then given. Testing was carried out by presenting the CS alone while behavioral responses were maintained by reinforcement in both instrumental tasks on alternate sessions. As expected, the CS induced a marked suppression of lever pressing for food reward and a marked enhancement of bar-pressing for shock avoidance. The analysis of the frequency of multiunit discharges to the CS revealed that the hippocampal cellular responses established during classical conditioning were maintained while two different behavioral responses were exhibited to the CS. The results showed that the associative response of hippocampal neurons may be dissociated from the Pavlovian conditioned responses the CS elicits. They support the hypothesis that hippocampal cellular responses represent a neural index of the acquired CS-US associative representation.

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hal-02540194 , version 1 (10-04-2020)

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Serge Laroche, Nicole El Massioui, Jean-Marc Edeline, Gérard Dutrieux. Hippocampal associative cellular responses: dissociation with behavioral responses revealed by a transfer-of-control technique. Behavioral and neural biology, 1987, 47 (3), pp.356-368. ⟨10.1016/s0163-1047(87)90474-2⟩. ⟨hal-02540194⟩
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