Hypothalamic stimulation facilitates contralateral visual control of a learned response.
Rats that ate during hypothalamic stimulation were trained to press a lever for food only while receiving light signals from head-mounted lights. During stimulation, they pressed if the signal was visible to the eye contralateral to the electrode, but ignored the signal if it was visible only to the ipsilateral eye.
D000818:Animals; D004193:Discrimination Learning / Q000502:physiology; D007839:Functional Laterality; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*