Short-term retention of habituation in the rat: A developmental study from infancy to old age.

Parsons, Patricia J.; Fagan, Thomas J.; Spear, Norman E.

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“…This suggests that in young rats, loss of memory for stimulus attributes occurs faster than loss of memory for the conditioning procedure itself. Finally, inferior retention in young rats has been demonstrated over very short retention intervals during which perceptual changes would be unlikely to occur, making stimulus generalisation decrement an unlikely explanation for infantile amnesia [121][122][123].…”

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Ontogeny of memory: An update on 40 years of work on infantile amnesia

Madsen

Kim

2016

Behavioural Brain Research

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Section: Infantile Amnesia: Why and How?mentioning

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Ontogeny of memory: An update on 40 years of work on infantile amnesia

Madsen

Kim

2016

Behavioural Brain Research

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“…A. Campbell & Stehouwer, 1980); in the other, habituation of a simple exploratory behavior (nose poking) was examined (Parsons, Fagan, & Spear, 1973). In both cases, significant age differences in retention of habituation were reported; however, age differences in rate of learning were also seen in both studies, making conclusions regarding developmental differences in retention per se somewhat tenuous.…”

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Ontogeny of long-term, nonassociative memory in the rat

Richardson

Campbell

1991

Animal Learning & Behavior

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The primary purpose of the present study was to assess the ontogeny of nonassoeiative learning and memory in 16-, 30-, and 75-day-old rats. In eaeh of three experiments, habituation of the orienting response to a novel auditory stimulus was measured. The orienting response is an uneonditioned reaetion elicited by innocuous environmental stimulation that habituates with repeated stimulus presentations. Both an autonomie eomponent (he art-rate deceleration) and a behavioral index (head jerk) of the orienting response were reeorded in this study. Although no age differenees in rate of habituation (i.e., rate of nonassoeiative learning) were found (see Experiment 1), a marked effeet of age on retention of habituation was observed. Preweanling rats retained habituation ofthe orienting response to an auditory stimulus for less than 4 h (Experiment 2), whereas adult animals exhibited no forgetting even after a l-week interval (Experiment 3). These results are diseussed in terms of (1) demonstrations of age-related differenees in associative memory, (2) the persistenee of nonassoeiative memories in adults, and (3) the significance of the orienting response as a measure of retention of nonassociative learning.

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“…Although some studies have used exploration to study selected aspects of habituation (e.g., Parsons, Fagan, & Spear, 1973), little systematic work has been done to evaluate habituation of such behavior with respect to the several parametric features of habituation (Thompson & Spencer, 1966). Since the present studies were intended as preliminary datagathering studies, relatively simple procedures and only one basic measure of exploration, the number of squares crossed per trial, were used instead of multiple measures of exploration as has been advocated (Fowler, 1965).…”

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Habituation and dishabituation of rats’ exploration of a novel environment

Terry

1979

Animal Learning & Behavior

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The habituation of locomotor activity across repeated exposures to a novel maze was studied in a series of experiments using rats as subjects. Habituation, defined as a decrease in ambulation, was greater on a second trial occurring 5 min after a first trial than on one occurring 60 min after. This short-term decrement occurred only when the same maze was used on both trials, and could be dishabituated by intertrial detention in another novel environment. On a delayed test trial, habituation was, in one case, somewhat greater following initial spaced trials, and in another condition, comparable following both massed and spaced trials. The longer term habituation was maze specific, but was not affected by the presence of a dishabituator following either or both of the first two trials. The results were discussed in terms of theories of "priming" and encoding variability.Much of the recent interest in the response decrement that occurs with repeated exposures to a stimulus (i.e., habituation) has focused on the short-term effects of prior stimulation. For example, Davis (1970) found more habituation of the startle response of rats during a sequence of massed tone presentations than during spaced presentations. Whitlow (1975), using a vasomotor component of the orienting response in rabbits, observed a short-term response decrement due to an immediately prior stimulus occurrence, that was separable from the longterm habituation due to the cumulative history of stimulations. Whitlow also found that the short-term decrement occurred only with repetitions of the same stimulus, and that it could be removed by placement of a dishabituating stimulus between repetitions of the target stimulus.However, as Davis (1970) and Whitlow (1975) also noted, the long-term effects of such manipulations can differ from the short-term effects. For example, Davis found, on delayed test trials, that initial spacing of the stimulus presentations led to more habituation than did the initial massed presentations.One theory of both the short-and long-term response decrements of habituation is Wagner's (1976) theory of priming in short-term memory (STM). According to this theory, a stimulus would be less effective in eliciting an unconditioned response if it occurred while a representation of that stimulus was

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Short-term retention of habituation in the rat: A developmental study from infancy to old age.

Cited by 30 publications

References 14 publications

Ontogeny of memory: An update on 40 years of work on infantile amnesia

Ontogeny of memory: An update on 40 years of work on infantile amnesia

Ontogeny of long-term, nonassociative memory in the rat

Habituation and dishabituation of rats’ exploration of a novel environment

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