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EXPERIMENTS CONCERNING THE TRANSFER OFA LEARNED RESPONSE AND ACTIVITY LEVEL BY BRAIN HOMOGENATES
Author(s) -
Lagerspetz Kirsti M. J.,
Raitis Päivikki,
Tirri R.,
Lagerspetz K. Y. H.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1968.tb00538.x
Subject(s) - open field , psychology , avoidance response , neuroscience , conditioning , transfer of learning , endocrinology , chemistry , medicine , developmental psychology , biology , psychiatry , statistics , mathematics
L agerspetz , K. M. J., R aitis , P., T irri , R. & L agerspetz , K. Y. H. Experiments concerning the transfer of a learned response and activity level by brain homogenates. Scand.J. Psychol ., 1968, 9, 225–229,— The learning of a conditioned avoidance response caused an increase in the open‐field activity of male albino mice. Pseudo‐conditioning had an opposite effect. The transfer of brain homogenate from the trained animals did not facilitate the acquisition of the avoidance response by the recipient animals. Differences in the open‐field activity were not transmitted with the brain homogenates. However, the constancy of the open‐field activity scores was decreased by the homogenate injection, and also by severe electric shocks.