Higher-order unimodal olfactory sensory preconditioning in Drosophila [PDF]
eLife, 2022 Learning and memory storage is a complex process that has proven challenging to tackle. It is likely that, in nature, the instructive value of reinforcing experiences is acquired rather than innate.
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Orbitofrontal neurons signal sensory associations underlying model-based inference in a sensory preconditioning task [PDF]
eLife, 2018 Using knowledge of the structure of the world to infer value is at the heart of model-based reasoning and relies on a circuit that includes the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC).
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How common is a common error term? The rules that govern associative learning in sensory preconditioning and second-order conditioning [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022 In standard (first-order) Pavlovian conditioning protocols, pairings of an initially neutral conditioned stimulus (CS) and a biologically significant unconditioned stimulus (US) result in the formation of a CS-US association.
Travis P. Todd, Nathan M. Holmes
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Dopamine D1 and D2 Receptors Are Important for Learning About Neutral-Valence Relationships in Sensory Preconditioning [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021 Dopamine neurotransmission has been ascribed multiple functions with respect to both motivational and associative processes in reward-based learning, though these have proven difficult to tease apart.
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The Opioid Receptor Antagonist Naloxone Enhances First-Order Fear Conditioning, Second-Order Fear Conditioning and Sensory Preconditioning in Rats [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021 The opioid receptor antagonist naloxone enhances Pavlovian fear conditioning when rats are exposed to pairings of an initially neutral stimulus, such as a tone, and a painful foot shock unconditioned stimulus (US; so-called first-order fear conditioning;
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Dorsal hippocampus mediates light–tone associations in male mice [PDF]
eLifeDaily choices are often influenced by environmental cues that are not directly associated with reinforcers. This phenomenon, known as higher-order conditioning, can be studied using sensory preconditioning tasks in rodents.
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Retrosplenial cortex damage impairs unimodal sensory preconditioning. [PDF]
Behav Neurosci, 2020 The retrosplenial cortex (RSC) is positioned at the interface between cortical sensory regions and the structures that compose the medial temporal lobe memory system. It has recently been suggested that 1 functional role of the RSC involves the formation of associations between cues in the environment (stimulus-stimulus [S-S] learning; Bucci & Robinson,
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The basolateral amygdala complex and perirhinal cortex represent focal and peripheral states of information processing in rats [PDF]
eLifeWe previously identified the roles of the basolateral amygdala complex (BLA) and perirhinal cortex (PRh) in sensory preconditioning in male and female rats (Wong et al., 2025).
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Neural correlates of sensory preconditioning: a preliminary fMRI investigation. [PDF]
Hum Brain Mapp, 2014 Sensory preconditioning (SPC; also known as behaviorally silent learning) consists of a combination of two neutral stimuli, none of which elicits an unconditional response. After one of them is later paired with an unconditional stimulus (US), the other neutral stimulus also yields a conditional response although it has never been paired with the US ...
Yu T, Lang S, Birbaumer N, Kotchoubey B.
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Integration of sensory and fear memories in the rat medial temporal lobe [PDF]
eLifeWong et al., 2019 used a sensory preconditioning protocol to examine how sensory and fear memories are integrated in the rat medial temporal lobe. In this protocol, rats integrate a sound-light (sensory) memory that forms in stage 1 with a light-shock ...
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