Instrumental response persistence following induction of hippocampal theta frequency during fixed-ratio responding in rats.

Glazer, Howard I.

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“…In the extensive theoretical debate for and against the spatial (cognitive) mapping position on hippocampal function, there is a tradition of experimental research leading to a class of theories that have been more or less set aside. These are conceptualizations of hippocampal function in terms such as novelty, discrepancy, and habituation (e.g., Simonov, 1974;Vinogradova, 1975); suppression and inhibition (e.g., Douglas, 1967;Kimble, 1968;Altman et al, 1973); neuromodulatory effects (Isaacson, 1980); and, in the spirit of Vinogradova and Simonov, frustration, suppression, and persistence (e.g., Gray, 1970;Amsel et al, 1973;Glazer, 1974aGlazer, , 1974b, and the behavioral inhibition system (Gray, 1982). Angevine and Cotman (1981), in what could stand as a summary of this general kind of characterization of hippocampal function, wrote that "[Tlhe hippocampus holds the secret to limbic system function, or at least a large part of it.…”

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Hippocampal function in the rat: Cognitive mapping or vicarious trial and error?

Amsel

1993

Hippocampus

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The most prominent hypothesis of hippocampal function likens the hippocampus to a "cognitive map," a term used by a famous learning theorist, E. C. Tolman, to explain maze learning. The usual application of this concept of cognitive map, as it applies to the hippocampus, is to what is called spatial learning, mainly in the radial-arm maze of Olton and the Morris water maze. In a recent Hippocampus Forum, evidence for the cognitive map hypothesis was reviewed in a lead article by Nadel, followed by a series of commentaries by leading investigators of hippocampal function. This speculative commentary offers an alternative not represented in the forum--that the function of the hippocampus in spatial learning is not as a cognitive map, but that it subserves another function proposed by Tolman in his work on simple discrimination learning, vicarious trial and error, based on incipient, conflicting dispositions to approach and avoid.

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Hippocampal function in the rat: Cognitive mapping or vicarious trial and error?

Amsel

1993

Hippocampus

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“…Theta has, of course, been linked to other behavioural functions as well, for example, to voluntary action (e.g., Vander-wolf, 1971) and to spatial learning (O'Keefe & Nadel, 1978); but I find no inconsistency among these interpretations. Theta has also been linked in Gray's laboratory and mine, not only to anticipated frustration but also to reactions to novel or disruptive stimulation, the former being a special case of the latter in my general persistence theory (e.g., Amsel, 1972a; Amsel, Glazer, Lakey, McCuller & Wong, 1973; Glazer, 1972, 1974a, b). There is evidence from Vanderwolf's laboratory that the theta rhythm of the hippocampal EEG is first seen in rat pups around 11–12 days (Gillespie, 1974), which is just about the time we see the first paradoxical effect, the PREE, in rat pups.…”

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Developmental psychobiology and behaviour theory: Reciprocating influences.

Amsel¹

1986

Canadian Journal of Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologi

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This paper addresses the topic of levels of functioning in ontogeny in the context of a large body of normative data, demonstrating the ages of first appearance in infancy of a number of reward-schedule effects, all of which have been observed in adult rats and some in other species including humans. An introductory section discusses levels of functioning in animals and humans, with particular reference in the latter case to neuropsychological theories of memory function. This is followed by a summary presentation of the normative developmental data on reward-schedule effects; earlier work implicating the hippocampal formation in some of these effects, and in general in reactions to discrepancy; and our work on the effects of hippocampal lesions and of exposure to alcohol in utero on single-alternation patterning and on the partial reinforcement extinction effect. These latter results suggest a modification of Frustration Theory, which gains some support from work that relates differential hippocampal granule-cell genesis to exposure to a number of reward-schedule effects in infancy.Daniel Berlyne was a rich academic blend of Manchester Grammar School, Cambridge University, and Yale, of Pavlov, Hull, Piaget, and Hebb, mixed with everything that was new and exciting in psychology in the 1950s and 1960s. Yet he was a unique intellect. He was one of the first to understand the meaning and *This paper is based on, and is an extension of, the Daniel E. Berlyne Lecture presented at the University of Toronto on March 5, 1986. Portions of this paper were included in, and portions were taken from, the I. E.

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Learned persistence at 11–12 days but not at 10–11 days in infant rats

Chen

Amsel

1980

Developmental Psychobiology

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In 2 experiments using milk-suckling from an anesthetized dam as the reinforcer, evidence is presented that the transitional age in rat pups for learning of persistence as a result of appetitive partial reinforcement is between 11 and 12 days of age. In Experiment I, pups 12-13 days of age showed the partial reinforcement extinction effect (PREE) whereas 10-11-day olds did not. In Experiment II, pups trained at 11-12 days and tested at Day 13 did show a PREE at Day 13 but those trained at 10-11 days did not.

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Instrumental response persistence following induction of hippocampal theta frequency during fixed-ratio responding in rats.

Cited by 17 publications

References 10 publications

Hippocampal function in the rat: Cognitive mapping or vicarious trial and error?

Hippocampal function in the rat: Cognitive mapping or vicarious trial and error?

Developmental psychobiology and behaviour theory: Reciprocating influences.

Learned persistence at 11–12 days but not at 10–11 days in infant rats

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