A closed-field intelligence test for rats.

Rabinovitch, M. Sam; Rosvold, H. Enger

doi:10.1037/h0083542

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“…A 45-s intertrial interval was used to allow the experimenter time to clean the maze using a high-power cleaner (HDQ cleaner) so that olfactory cues could be eliminated. Rats were tested for 6 consecutive days on Problem 4 as described by Rabinovitch and Rosvold (1951). After testing, rats were randomly assigned to a surgery group (described above).…”

Section: Testingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lesions of the dorsal hippocampus or parietal cortex differentially affect spatial information processing.

Rogers

Kesner

2006

Behavioral Neuroscience

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The present experiments used 2 versions of a modified Hebb-Williams maze to test the role of the dorsal hippocampus (dHip) and parietal cortex (PC) in processing allocentric and egocentric space during acquisition and retention. Bilateral lesions were made to either the dHip or PC before maze testing (acquisition) or after maze testing (retention). The results indicate that lesions of the dHip impair allocentric maze acquisition, whereas lesions of the PC impair egocentric maze acquisition. During retention, lesions of the PC produced a significant impairment on both maze versions, whereas lesions of the dHip produced short-lived, transient impairments on both maze versions. These results suggest that during acquisition, the hippocampus and PC process spatial information in parallel; however, long-term retention of spatial information requires the PC with the dHIP as necessary for retrieval and/or access but not necessarily storage.

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Lesions of the dorsal hippocampus or parietal cortex differentially affect spatial information processing.

Rogers

Kesner

2006

Behavioral Neuroscience

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“…Because it is known (Davenport et al, 1970;Rabinovitch and Rosvold, 1951) that experience in one problem solving series decreases the number of errors made in a second one, the lack of correlation found in section II between testday and error number indicates that there is an increase in the difficulty levels of the mazes in the course of the test series. Indeed, the testday was found to correlate with a number of spatial maze characteristics.…”

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“…After the original set of Hebb and Williams (1946), two others were developed by Rabinovitch and Rosvold (1951) and Davenport et al (1970). The Rabinovitch-Rosvold series consists of asynmletrical test configurations.…”

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The spatial distribution of errors made by rats in Hebb-Williams type mazes in relation to the spatial properties of the blind alleys

Boer¹,

Bohus

1988

Behavioural Processes

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De Boer, S. and Bohus B. 1988.. The spatial distribution of errors made by rats in Hebb-Williams type mazes in relation to the spatial properties of the blind alleys. Behav. The various configurations in series of Hebb-Williams type of mazes, which are used to measure problem solving behaviour in rats, differ markedly in structure. The relationship between error behaviour and spatial maze structure in control rats tested in a number of pharmacological experiments is described in this paper. The spatial structure of error behaviour of rats was found to correlate with maze structure. Knowledge of these correlations can be used to predict error patterns in new mazes. Furthermore, aspecific experience acquired by running in a number of different configurations, affected error behaviour in a particular test configuration. This effect of aspecific experience was different from that of specific experience acquired in the same test configuration. In studies investigating effects of (e.g. pharmacological)treatments on maze behaviour of rats, changes in the structure of errors may be useful to determine the nature of the behavioural alterations.

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“…Some of these actions appeared to be similar to those of morphine, while others were different from "classical" opiate-like influences. One group of beta-endorphin fragments which show behavioral effects through nonclassical opioid mechanisms is that of the a-type endorphins, which consists of a-endorphin [[3E- (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)] and its fragments, e.g., [3E- (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16), [3E- (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9) and [3E- (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9). Their behavioral effects resemble those of amphetamine in a number of respects.…”

Section: Rat Maze Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The peptides also enhance the apomorphine-induced stereotyped sniffing (20). In a series of foodrewarded problem solving experiments in Hebb-Williams type of mazes, amphetamine, 13E-(2-9) and [3E- (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16) increased the number of errors (2). The resemblance between the effects of amphetamine and a-type endorphins on rat behavior may mean that these substances work through at least partly similar mechanisms.…”

Section: Rat Maze Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%