“…Specifically, the lack of the habituation phenomenon in rats exposed to HALO before the first test but treated with SAL before the retest appears to be due to differences in the subject's internal state between the first test and retest. Pharmacological treatment, including the administration of HALO, has profound effects on the subject's internal state, e.g., as reflected by its effect on reward expectation (Negrelli et al, 2020) and the emission of 50-kHz USV (Wright et al, 2013), and it was repeatedly shown that a mismatch of the subject's internal state during acquisition, i.e., the first test, and retrieval, i.e., the retest, hinders memory retrieval (e.g., Girden and Culler, 1937; for review see Radulovic et al, 2017). For instance, in a T-maze escape task, rats were not able to display a response learned under drugged conditions in later undrugged conditions (Overton, 1964).…”