[Functional asymmetry of the frontal cortex and lateral hypothalamus of cats during food instrumental conditioning].
The synchronism and latency of auditory evoked potentials (EP) recorded in symmetric points of the frontal cortex and lateral hypothalamus of cats were measured at different stages of instrumental food conditioning and after the urgent transition to 30% reinforcement. Correlation coefficients between EPs in the cortex and hypothalamus were high (with left-side dominance) at the beginning of the experiments, when food motivation was high, and during the whole experiments in cases of high-probability of conditioned performance. Analysis of early positive P55-80 EP component showed that at all conditioning stages the peak latency of this component was shorter in the left cortical areas than in symmetrical points, whereas in the hypothalamus the shorter latency at the left side was observed at the stage of unstable conditioned reflex, and at the stage of stable reflex the latency of the studied component was shorter at the right side. During transition to 30% reinforcement, the latency was also shorter in the right hypothalamus. It is suggested that the high left-side correlation between the hypothalamus and cortex was associated with motivational and motor component of behavior rather than reflected the emotional stress induced by transition to another stereotype of food reinforcement (30%).
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Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
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D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D003214:Conditioning, Classical / Q000502:physiology*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D004567:Electrodes, Implanted; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory / Q000502:physiology; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D007026:Hypothalamic Area, Lateral / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology