Stimulation of abducens nucleus supports classical conditioning of the nictitating membrane response.
The acquisition and terminal performance of a classical conditioning group compared with a control group indicated that extension of the nictitating membrane elicited by direct electrical stimulation of the abducens nucleus was successfully conditioned to a previously neutral stimulus. The conditioning so obtained was associative and not due to such nonassociative factors as sensitization, pseudo-conditioning, or alteration in base-rate responding.
D000010:Abducens Nerve / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000502:physiology*; D003215:Conditioning, Eyelid / Q000502:physiology*; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D009541:Nictitating Membrane / Q000502:physiology*; D011817:Rabbits