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Learn Behav ; 42(4): 305-12, 2014 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24946946

ABSTRACT

Joint presentations of a conditioned stimulus (CS) and an unconditioned stimulus (US) strengthen the contingency between them, whereas presentations of one stimulus without the other degrade this contingency. For example, the CS can be presented without the US either before conditioning (CS-no US and then CS-US; latent inhibition) or after conditioning (CS-US and then CS-no US; extinction). In vertebrate subjects and several invertebrate species, a time lapse usually results in a return of the conditioned response, or spontaneous recovery. However, in land mollusks, spontaneous recovery from extinction has only recently been reported, and response recovery after latent inhibition has not been reported. In two experiments, using conditioned aversion to a food odor as a measure of learning and memory retention, we observed contingency degradation via latent inhibition (Experiment 1) and extinction (Experiment 2) in the common garden slug, Lehmannia valentiana. In both situations, the contingency degradation procedure successfully attenuated conditioned responding, and delaying testing by several days resulted in recovery of the conditioned response. This suggests that the CS-US association survived the degradation manipulation and was retained over an interval of several days.


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Avoidance Learning/physiology , Conditioning, Classical/physiology , Retention, Psychology/physiology , Animals , Gastropoda , Odorants , Time Factors
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