Stability of the behavioral specialization of neurons.
The constancy of the association of the activity of the neurons of the limbic cortex and food-procuring behavior has been analyzed in neurons specially selected on the basis of the criterion of length of recording in experiments in rabbits. Comparison of the activity in the first and second halves of the period was carried on the basis of the average frequency for the time of each half of the recording, the average frequency in each of 10 distinctive acts of cyclical behavior, as well as on the basis of the probability of the presence of activation in these acts. It was demonstrated that behavioral specialization, defined as the presence of 100% activation of the cell in specific acts, did not change in the course of the recording, and was a stable information-containing characteristic of the association of the activity of the neuron with the animal's behavior.
Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow.
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Gorkin
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Shevchenko
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D008032:Limbic System / Q000502:physiology; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D011817:Rabbits