Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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937056 | Neurobiology of Learning and Memory | 2010 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We developed a single-trial cue-location memory task in which rats experienced an auditory cue while exploring an environment. They then recalled and avoided the sound origination point after the cue was paired with shock in a separate context. Subjects with medial prefrontal cortical (mPFC) lesions made no such avoidance response, but both lesioned and control subjects avoided the cue itself when presented at test. A follow up assessment revealed no spatial learning impairment in either group. These findings suggest that the rodent mPFC is required for incidental learning or recollection of the location at which a discrete cue occurred, but is not required for cue recognition or for allocentric spatial memory.
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Authors
Tim Rawson, Michael O’Kane, Andrew Talk,