Latent inhibition (LI) is a behavioral paradigm in which prior exposure to a stimulus not followed by reinforcement retards subsequent conditioning to that stimulus when it is paired with reinforcement. Two experiments investigated the effects of 0.1 mg/kg haloperidol administration on LI as a funct
Haloperidol facilitates memory retrieval in the rat
โ Scribed by Susan J. Sara
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 432 KB
- Volume
- 89
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0033-3158
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โฆ Synopsis
Rats were trained in a complex maze task for food reward. After a 25-day retention interval, they made more errors than at the last training trials. This forgetting was alleviated by pretest treatment with haloperidol. The same dose of haloperidol had no effect on acquisition or performance when injected during training. The results were replicated, but smaller doses were found to be inactive. The possibility that the effect might be mediated through the noradrenergic system is considered.
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