title: Survival of a conditioned inhibitory avoidance response after decerebration.
abstract: There is evidence that inhibitory avoidance learning is still possible after removal of the telencephalic forebrain. However, it is not known whether subtelencephalic storage of such a conditioned response takes place when the brain is intact. To investigate this possibility, rats received one training trial in the "up-hill avoidance" task, and 8 h later the entire forebrain except the hypothalamus was bilaterally ablated. When tested 24 h later, the decerebrate rats still exhibited the learned response, demonstrating a transfer of the conditioned response from the intact to the postlesion state. This result indicates that memory-storage for this avoidance task takes place, at least in part, subtelencephalically.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001362:Avoidance Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D003655:Decerebrate State; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013687:Telencephalon / Q000502:physiology* / Q000601:surgery