Abstract
The present study examined the effect of ibotenic acid lesions in the medial portion of the medial geniculate nucleus (mMGN) on differential heart rate (HR) conditioning to acoustic stimuli in rabbits. Lesions in mMGN prevented the acquisition of differential HR conditioned responses but not bradycardiac responses to the conditioned stimuli. The data suggest that cells in this region play an important role in the discriminative component of HR conditioning.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 199-203 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Brain research |
Volume | 382 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 10 1986 |
Keywords
- differential Pavlovian conditioning
- heart rate
- medial geniculate nucleus
- rabbit
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Developmental Biology
- Molecular Biology
- Clinical Neurology
- Neuroscience(all)